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When a teacher reacts to a child, the child’s summary of observation changes resulting in changes to the student’s story indicating learning has occurred.

Subsequently the teacher, depending on their summary of observation of the student’s reaction to their output, decides if their prior input to the student elicited the desired student behavior (student output). If the teacher’s summary of observations indicates that the resulting change in the student behavior has achieved the desired effect, the teacher then should reinforce the student’s story with their outputs.

If the teacher’s summary of observations indicates that the resulting change in the student behavior has not achieved the desired effect, the teacher then should generate an output, which will produce the desired student behavior. The teacher’s output will hopefully change the child’s summary of observation resulting in change of their story producing the desired behavior. This cycle continues until the teacher has elicited the desired change to the student’s story, i.e. the desired behavior or output indicating a new learning mode.

The Teacher to Student input-output cycle.

Teacher output, student receives the teacher’s outputs as inputs resulting in a change in their summary of observations resulting in a new story. Teacher continues to monitor this process until the student’s behavior indicates that the student’s story is less wrong.