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Teaching and training
Curriculum, lesson plans, exercises, assessment. Make them succeed inside the session.
36 entries here · one process per category, checkpoints written per job
- Syllabus: backwards from capabilityDesigning a course by listing chapters first.
- Objectives: written so they can be checkedObjectives always read 'understand the principles of X'.
- Lesson plan: forty-five minutesTime runs out mid-explanation every session.
- Exercise design: hands on, not noddingNodding in class and unable to do it at home.
- Case teaching: pick one that went wrongCases online are too tidy to teach anything.
- Homework: revealing understandingHomework gets copied and reveals nothing.
- Rubrics: knowing how it is judgedLearners keep asking whether their work is acceptable.
- Flipped classroom: lecture before classNot enough hours and a fear that pre-work goes unwatched.
- Online course: keeping attention on cameraHigh mid-session dropout online.
- Cohort course: getting them to finishDecent enrolment and poor completion.
- Corporate training: the business problem firstA corporate session with a very broad brief.
- Slides: one message per pageText-heavy slides and learners copying instead of listening.
- First session: rules and expectationsThe first session is admin and nobody cares.
- Closing session: what the last one doesThe course ends abruptly with no sense of arrival.
- Mixed levels: one class, three levelsWide ability spread in one room.
- Q&A: when you cannot answerA learner asks something I cannot answer.
- Course pipeline: what comes nextLearners finish one course and disappear.
- Instructor guide: someone else can teach itOnly I can teach this course.
- Questioning: thinking, not answersQuestions meet silence or one eager hand.
- Interaction: not 'any questions''Any questions' is always met with silence.
- A concept that will not land: another entranceExplained three times and still not understood.
- Attention lost: three movesHalfway through and phones are out.
- Running behind: cut content, not practiceThree sessions behind and practice is the tempting cut.
- Mixed pace: neither waiting nor panicSome finish in ten minutes, others need forty.
- Grading: reasoning before answersToo much homework to grade properly.
- Feedback: what to do nextFeedback that ends at 'good, keep going'.
- One-on-one: watch them workI talk a lot, they nod, and still cannot do it.
- Exams: ability, not recallExams test recall and it is forgotten the next week.
- Retakes: keeping people inSome fail and simply disappear.
- Talking to parents: facts and methodExplaining a child's progress without sounding harsh.
- Complaints: absorb, then solveA learner says the course was useless and wants a refund.
- Instructor voice: sounding humanDelivering like a script and it tires people.
- Board and demo: keeping upWriting while talking leaves people behind.
- Case walkthrough: judgement before answerGiving the answer teaches no method.
- Classroom order: without forceSomeone keeps interrupting or doing other work.
- Online delivery: equipment checkTechnical problems in every online session.
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