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Chapter 1
Get Started!
Introducing A Learners’ View (ALV)
The term A Learners’ View (ALV) represents a sequence, i.e., a process, of essential behavior patterns people use to learn. ALV consists of learning in one-step, through trial-and-error, in three parts, with four stages, that yield one or more of five results.
From this view, the purpose of instruction is to reduce the number of trials-and-errors learners use to learn a lesson.
To learn, learners filter and simplify a lesson in order to answer their two primary questions: What do I have to do? and What will it cost me to do it?
A lesson that uses ALV makes answers to these questions transparent to learners. It also indicates what to monitor and adjust in the lesson in order to increase chances learners will learn the lesson promptly.
Research Based
Behavioral scientists have described behavior patterns sampled in ALV during the past 100 years of experimental empirical research. They conducted these studies in laboratory and practical settings.
Results of their studies form an infrastructure of learning. Learners use this infrastructure to complete lessons successfully, probably including your lessons. A lesson does not exist for a learner until it increases that person’s learning.
Getting Started
Starting to use ALV occurs in stages of familiarity with behavioral science research descriptions of what people do to learn. Here’s a sample lesson based on ALV.
This lesson is for teachers who are unfamiliar or reject the adequacy of behavioral science descriptions to accomplish what they want from lessons.
Objective of Sample Lesson with ALV: Choose to use ALV to plan, instruct, and assess lessons.
1. Use ALV to unlock learning as you would use a code to access your bank account.
2. Review Teachers’ Guide rapidly, clicking on links to confirm that you are using the same definitions of descriptors as ALV represents.
3. Choose to use ALV as a guide for planning a lesson.
4. Choose your favorite existing lesson. Adapt the objective of that lesson to meet criteria for ALV.
4. If you are still unsure of what to do next, use Quick-Step to Using a Learners’ View to adapt the lesson.
5. Estimate how much time and other resources you will use to increase learning of students in your class promptly to exceed the minimum state academic performance standard with your existing lesson plan without ALV.
6. Make the same estimate with one that includes ALV.
7. Compare these estimates.
8. Use that comparison to choose if you will learn to use ALV to increase student learning in your classroom.