when teaching a skill, break the lesson into a series of steps that the student can master one at a time, building from one to the next to reach the ultimate objective. While this sounds very similar to the scaffolding approach used in traditional education, it differs crucially in its focus on understanding the necessary mental representations at each step of the way and making sure that the student has developed the appropriate representations before moving to the next step.
— 📖 Peak - Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
- mostly saved this because the interesting, qualified scaffolding reference
- ◊ deliberate practice
- ◊ learning method