In this episode of the podcast Femi and Matt discuss the ideas of Mastery and 'Conceptual Understanding' in teaching and learning. The conversation covers:
- Mastery
- Layers of understanding
- A pragmatic definition of understanding
- Common issues in the classroom
- ‘rich’ activities vs repetition
- Chunking and isolating skills
- aha moments
- Knowledge is power
- Mastery takes time
- Traps for enthusiastic teachers
- Split classes
- Extending top end students in the classroom
- The optics of maths lessons (and skill acquisition in general) – which can look ‘boring’ from the outside
- Progression over time vs observing one-off lessons
- And Student voice, amongst other topics
We hope you enjoy the discussion, and find it useful!
In this episode of the podcast Femi and Matt discuss the ideas of Mastery and 'Conceptual Understanding' in teaching and learning. The conversation covers:
- Mastery
- Layers of understanding
- A pragmatic definition of understanding
- Common issues in the classroom
- ‘rich’ activities vs repetition
- Chunking and isolating skills
- aha moments
- Knowledge is power
- Mastery takes time
- Traps for enthusiastic teachers
- Split classes
- Extending top end students in the classroom
- The optics of maths lessons (and skill acquisition in general) – which can look ‘boring’ from the outside
- Progression over time vs observing one-off lessons
- And Student voice, amongst other topics
We hope you enjoy the discussion, and find it useful!