We live in a time when more and more people are studying. In the past, not everybody went to school, and the ones that did could get along well with trial and error methods of teaching and learning.
There seem to be three principles that education research has uncovered:
1. Teachers must draw out and work with the preexisting understandings that their students bring with them.
2. Teachers must teach some subject matter in depth, providing many examples in which the same concept is at work and providing a firm foundation of factual knowledge.
3. The teaching of metacognitive skills should be integrated into the curriculum in a variety of subject areas.
Asking the right question takes us a long way in complex issues. The question heading this note seems to be a good start.
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