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#138 Michael Pershan: Teaching with worked examples - part 1

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Teaching Problem Solving Strategies to Students

Cognitive load theory refers to which is essentially solving similar problems but what you didn't talk about in the book but I'm really keen to hear your thoughts about nonetheless is giving supporting students to get better at problem solving. How do you kind of scaffold or or give your students exposure to these authentic problem solving let's call it yeah? You can tell from his books how he imagines teaching going which is that a student will get stuck on a problem and then he'll saccratically push them through a lot of questioning to towards a solution. The big domain spanning strategies i i don't right those are not teachable there's probably much more specific ones that are really teachable like

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