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> the truth is, different people learn differently

This is the same conclusion I came to as a computer science TA in college. At first, I was naive and tried to teach people the way that I would find it effective to be taught, and I was a bit stymied by this. I slowly started trying different strategies for teaching things, and once I made the (somewhat obvious in hindsight) realization that different students learn in different ways, it became a fun challenge to find a method that worked for a given student.




I'm not a teacher, but a parent of young children. Echoing an educational scientist from my country: the key point for effective teaching is to realize how or what does the student or child understand right now. This should be the baseline of your explanations.




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