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Five keys to learning: Teach less, learn more, reflect

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In the final part of his series dissecting his five key aspects of effective lessons, Matt Bromley describes keys four and five – teach less, learn more, and increasing the time for student reflection
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This is the final of five articles in which I am exploring five principles of well-planned lessons. In part one, I outlined the five principles. In short, these are:

Five keys to learning: A SecEd series

 

Key 4: Teach less, learn more

In this final article, we'll consider keys four and five. Here are some useful questions with which to start:

Often teachers fail to adequately consider the gaps in students’ experiences and skills and then wrongly think that what they need to do in order to rectify this is teach more knowledge, cover more curriculum content. But understanding requires an iterative mix of experiences, reflections on those experiences, and targeted instruction in light of those experiences. Good lesson design involves the provision of sufficient real or simulated experiences in order to enable students’ understanding to develop.

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