Practice: Teach it

Teach it until it lands.

This is engaging practice. You explain a concept to a confused learner and dig for what's confusing them. You find out what you understand when you have to say it out loud.

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You face

A confused learner who doesn't get it yet.

The learner asks the questions a real student asks. A formula without a reason behind it gets a blank look. A good analogy gets a follow-up question. You keep going until the learner can demonstrate understanding.

Sample rep

Your roleYou're explaining what a derivative describes to a classmate who can run the power rule and can't say what it means.

Learner

I can do the power rule. I just don't know what a derivative is.

You

It tells you how fast something is changing at one moment. Think of a speedometer.

Learner

Frowns at the page.A speedometer isn't a graph, though.

You

On a graph, it's the steepness of the curve at that point.

Learner

But the curve keeps bending. Which steepness do you mean?

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Cognitive audit · Attempt 1

74 / 100

Finding the confusion19 / 25

Choosing an analogy20 / 25

Pacing the explanation15 / 25

Checking it landed20 / 25

The speedometer comparison landed, and the learner followed it. You moved to the graph before the idea had settled, so the next question went unanswered.

To work on next:

Ask the learner to demonstrate understanding before you introduce the graph.
Answer the learner's question about the bending curve.

Teach it until it lands.

Have the hard conversation here first.