NO ONE KNOWS WHEN, BY WHOM, HOW, OR WHY teaching and learning began. At the same time, almost everyone has encountered someone teaching and someone learning something.
Conventional public wisdom holds that everyone thus knows about these topics and in some way serves as an expert on them. Gossip about teaching and learning have probably been topics of conversation since these social actions were invented. This collection of beliefs and practices, like other folklore, includes some commonalities with and bears slight relation to reports by experimental behavioral and social scientists who describe what learners do while learning.
Classic Education: A Learners’ View (ALV) of Choices during Teaching and Learning addresses the gap between conventional public beliefs and reports from the cloisters of scientific and technical journals and practices that describe learning…
ALV also corresponds with Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy. Both address what it means to be literate in the 21st Century. ALV introduces teachers and others to the technical-scientific literacy of educators related to learning. ELA standards identify results for students when teachers apply ALV literacy through lessons.
We have designed this site at several levels for educators, parents, and general readers…