Teaching with Isolation

ISOLATING ASPECTS OF THE PROCESS

The idea behind this proposed “Learning Model” is that students need an opportunity to isolate the skills they are developing. So, rather than having them overwhelmed with all new things – new content, new speakers, new topics, new mental processes – I’m wanting us to explore the idea of isolating the process development portion but making the source materials familiar and known so the limited cognitive load can be allocated for the cognitive process of interpreting. And then becoming familiar and more in control of their process, they can start allocating cognitive load to new content, speakers, and topics.

(originally published in Amanda’s Musings museletter, Volume 1, Issue 1, Feb 2023)