A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.
Main Article: ALV for Teachers: A Guide to Choices for 1.0 Teaching
Theme: Teaching is elemental.
TEACHING FROM A LEARNERS’ VIEW (ALV) is elemental. In each lesson, teachers either show/tell learners the relevant sensations that will solve a problem, or they obscure the identification of these sensations. Teaching, in this sense, occurs only when learners solve the problem a teacher presents, irrespective of anything else any teacher says or in other ways does before, during, and after a lesson.
Teaching consists of reducing to near zero the number of trials-and-errors learners use to solve a problem. Those who apply this principle successfully use a DBTE pattern. This pattern consist of a sequence of actions while planning a lesson.
1. DESIGN (D). Identify and match elements you will use from the content you will instruct, and from the way you will instruct your lesson with elements of the learners’ view. Adjust these matches until learners reach criterion for that lesson.
2. BUILD (B). Write (as a map foryourself) and draw (as you would a story board) your lessons with the elements you identified in D, Step 1. Refine this plan to fit the length of time you have to offer the lesson.
3. TEST (T). Write a test that assesses which active ingredients of your content and instruction match elements learners use to learn.
4. EDIT (E). Reduce (by at least 10 percent each edit) the number of words and the elapsed time you use and adjust the design of each lesson until learners only see and hear essential steps to follow in order to solve the problem of the lesson successfully. Keep editing until you reduce that lesson until you count the elapsed time in seconds. Break your big lesson into modules, editing one module until you can offer it in seconds. Then go to the next module.
From a learners’ view, when teachers teach simply, people learn. DBTE offers a framework for simple teaching. DBTE features descriptions by behavioral and social scientists of how teachers match parts of lessons and instruction with what people do to learn. Each page of this site describes elements of this matching.
Descriptions of these elements support teachers’ attempting to guide learners to prompt, accelerated learning. To this end, ALV for Teachers and similar guides offer low risk, high return, highly strategic ways to increase learning.
Related Reading
- 1.0 Teaching
- ALV (A Learners’ View) for Teachers
Related Resources