Principle Checklist for Educators

A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.

Simplify, then Extrapolate (ALV T-Shirt Wisdom)

Main Page: Checklists for Educators

Theme: A simplified list of ways to monitor progress toward 1.0 Schools where all learners learn all lessons.

THE PRINCIPLE CHECKLIST, from a learners’ view (ALV), simplifies and describes minimum contributions each educator and other people in the school system make to earning 1.0 School ratings. Items on checklists include activities and resources experimental behavioral and social scientists have reported as active ingredients of learning and their implications for educators. Educators and others have completed items in various forms on the checklist and have used them to formulate instruction that accelerates, increases, and deepens (AIDs) learning.

1. A master list of vocabulary by grade level required to earn the highest score on required state standardized testing instruments. School curriculum staff and school psychomotrists assemble this list and then subdivide it into grade levels. This list provides all educators with a single consistent point of reference for instruction, assessment, and discussions.

2. Resources and support for teachers to feature use of vocabulary from this list in lessons and tests. This includes making public the amount of time and resources allocated to learn this vocabulary within each classroom. It also includes ancillary personnel assisting teachers to instruct learners in ways that all learners learn all lessons and in ways that those who do can exceed these minimums.

3. Record system that identifies and reports progress of learners to meet or exceed criteria for their grade level.

4. Public recognition system for acknowledging learners and educators as they meet or exceed these criteria.

5. Cost-Benefit analysis system that identifies costs of contributions various resources make to all learners learning all lessons.

References

1. A Competed Teacher (ACT)
2. A Learners’ View (ALV) of Learning in One Lesson
3. Fundamentals for Using a Learners’ View (ALV)
4. Lessons as Vocabulary and its Relationships
5. Rationed Learning, “Yes, but… Report” Revisited
6. Rules of Teaching: Digest of a Learners’ View (ALV) of Learning
7. The Stimulating Classroom Fallacy of Teaching

Related Resources

1. New Era School Initiative (NESI) Interviews and Conversations about Applying a Learners’ View (ALV)
2. New Era School Initiative (NESI) Press Release

Note

Early drafts of Principal Checklists for 1.0 Schools contain descriptions included in an earlier version of Principal Checklist for 1.0 Schools. (Drafts captured 02-05-15.)

1. Checklists and Definitions of Success
2. Checklist of Successes – Part I
3. Checklist of Successes – Part II
4. Checklist of Vocabulary in Curricula
5. Checklist to Increase Learner Competence
6. School Learning Candor Checklist

Last Edited: May 13, 2015