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85. Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham

Education Bookcast

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How Expertise Affects Doctors

Experts in training often know as much or nearly as much as experts. Expertise extends even to the types of mistakes that are made. When an expert doesn't get the right answer, the wrong answer is usually a pretty good guess. Compared to novices, experts are better able to single out important details and produce sensible solutions. These abilities are seen not only in doctors, but also in writers, mathematicians, chess players, and teachers. No wonder students often wander under an experienced teacher seeming to have eyes in the back of her head.

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