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Teaching By Example: Why Don’t My Students Just “Get It?”

September 26, 2017
Clear Expectations Skill Building

I’m a real fan of YouTube. I love watching videos to learn new things; cooking, playing guitar, science, politics, and more. Most of these content creators teach only by example, and to be honest, most of them are really lousy teachers. There seems to be this common sense that instruction should be example oriented: 5

Where Clear Expectations Meet Skill Building

January 25, 2017
Clear Expectations Skill Building

In the winter of 1968-69, I was asked by a friend to spend a weekend with him and his parents at their family’s vacation condo near Mammoth Mountain, California. The snow total for that year was extreme, as nearly 40 feet of the white stuff fell there that winter. I remember 20 foot walls of