Arrange three teaching examples so each prepares the next; try them on a learner.
WhenWeekly teaching preparation
“Kinnersley, an ingenious neighbour, who, being out of business, I encouraged to undertake showing the experiments for money, and drew up for him two lectures, in which the experiments were rang'd in such order, and accompanied with such explanations in such method, as that the foregoing should assist in comprehending the following.”
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, chapter XVIII, in Frank Woodworth Pine ed. (1916); events c.1740s–1750s; retrospective manuscript written 1771–1790. Read the source ↗
Why it works
Franklin ordered Kinnersley's demonstrations so preceding ones aided understanding of following ones. The sequence is the method; success still needs checking.
Start tiny
Write the first example and the next step in 90 seconds.
What you’ll notice
Listen for the exact step at which the learner gets lost.
When it slips
Do not just sort easy to hard. Name what each example supplies for the next.
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, chapter XVIII, in Frank Woodworth Pine ed. (1916); events c.1740s–1750s; retrospective manuscript written 1771–1790. Read the source ↗
Mastery: Practices you develop over weeks through skill, planning and trade-offs.
