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Core concepts for creating good explanations

Edited by Duncan Sabien (Inactive) last updated 30th Jul 2016

How understanding is made

  • Analogy
  • Internal coherence
  • Concept maps

Knowing your audience

  • Assessment
  • Pedagogical content knowledge

Meeting your audience

  • Framing explanations
  • Overcoming inferential distance
  • Scaffolding
  • Effective differentiation

Confirming understanding

  • Falsifiability
  • Maze problems
  • Giving your audience a ruler

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Parents:
A beginner's guide to explaining things
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