Students Don’t Need a Million Different Explanations

What looks like a need for different explanations is usually a need for missing prerequisites.

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Some people think students need a million different explanations of a of a topic until one clicks.

But what we found is: if you make sure students have all their prerequisites in place leading into a lesson, then they’re prepared for it as-is.

What you experience as a tutor, when you have to explain things a million different ways for a student to get it, is really that there’s some prerequisites missing, and you’re trying to rapid-fire cover the space to hit those missing things.

Which, I mean, if you don’t have a mastery learning system that guarantees prerequisites are in place, that’s not a bad heuristic.

Discussed ~1:08:38 in this podcast.

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