Mastery and Conceptual Understanding
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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!
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