Types of Lessons
A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.
When you have to explain a lesson, you used the wrong instruction. (ALV T-Shirt Wisdom)
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Theme: Categories of lessons by variations of intensity of planning, analysis of content, and order of instruction.
EIGHT TYPES OF LESSONS illustrate, from a learners’ view (ALV), variations of intensity (the degree of accuracy and precision to offer) during planning, content analysis (the level of detail that makes up the subject) and instruction in order to match choices of teachers with choices of learners. Six of these types match choices of learners and result in reduced numbers of trial-and-errors by learners and increased learning within seconds. Hybred and Wishlist lessons rely on randomality to match choices of teachers with choices of learners; they generally host larger numbers of trial-and-errors by learners and increased use of clock-time.
1. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). An explicit approach to an implicit aspect of all lessons. A structure for describing learning. Grounded in one, if not the most detailed bodies of experimental research study results describing how people learn. Included in lessons under various names, such as reinforcement, prior knowledge, and that’s right. Requires detailed observations and record keeping in order to plan the next lesson. Read More
2. Direct Instruction (DI). A traditional practice in preparing personnel in transportation industry, advertising, military, religion, and sports teams. Popularized in the 1960s by adapting this practice for use in academics. Variation of shaping by imitation, so it leads to generalizations. Uses a 2-Choice Correct-Incorrect Response Frame. Intense planning fused with content analysis and minimum instruction measured in numbers of words with clear directions for correct responses. Validated for use in academics by the largest experimental study of learning in the U.S. Read More
3. Direct Learning (DL). Uses a Correct-Incorrect Response Frame, with more tolerance for loosely guided trial-and-error to arrive at correct responses. Typically used in shop classes, science labs, Oxford University style academic classes. Read More
4. Directed Learning (DDL). Directed Learning Lessons (DLLs) exists in three venues of face-to-face, eye-to-eye contact as well as by software. Variations exist when teachers divide a class into small groups to complete an assignment. Read More
5. Hybrid Lesson (HL). Arguably could be called an Eclectic Lesson drawing on a range of practices that reportedly “work,” but lack fusion into an identifiable coherent repeatable unit. Teacher choices frequently referred to by educators as based on experience of self and reports of others. An apparent undifferentiated nominal level assembly of planning and instruction with content selected by its place in a curriculum sequence. Yields more predictable outcomes than from Wish List Lessons. Read More
6. Prescriptive Teaching (PT). Emphasizes method over content, that is shaping behavior patterns through responses of instructor to actions of learners. A version of Applied Behavior Analysis. Read More
7. Try Another Way (TAW). Emphasizes learning as completing tasks, features intense planning and content task analysis with instruction reduced to the words Try Another Way, judged a neutral statement, not reinforce of any kind. Read More
8. Wish List Lesson (WLL). Relies on folklore about education for its justification. An undifferentiated assembly of planning (ranging from a few minutes to hours daily), content analysis, and instruction that fills whatever time is scheduled as classroom contact time with students. Read More
References
- A Learners’ View (ALV) in a Nutshell
- A Learners’ View (ALV) of Learning in One Lesson
- Folklore about Learning
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Last Edited: March 20, 2015