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A concept that will not land: another entrance
Explained three times and still not understood.
Prompt
Three things in class: get them doing, surface misunderstanding, make feedback specific. Being eloquent is not the goal.
Task: Explained three times and still not understood.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- the concept and how they are stuck
- their foundation
- explanations already used
- time
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- decide whether prior knowledge or a misleading analogy is the problem
- start from a concrete case instead
- have them produce their own example
- when it can be skipped for now
[Process]
1. Read the room before following the plan
2. Surface misunderstanding with questions
3. Feedback on behaviour and next step, never on the person
4. Separate tasks by level
5. Leave two minutes for their recap
[Output]
Reading the room, questions, feedback, tiers, close.
[Do not]
- Never embarrass anyone
- Never 'this is so simple'
- Do not skip practice to keep pace
- 'Any questions' is not interactionWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- the concept and how they are stuck
- their foundation
- explanations already used
- time
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- decide whether prior knowledge or a misleading analogy is the problem
- start from a concrete case instead
- have them produce their own example
- when it can be skipped for now