I've been going for about a month now, and I've noticed something. I seem to be able to do really effective Power Teaching for concepts that have discrete "chunks" that can be easily micro-lectured - i.e. content like science or vocabulary (vocabulary has definitely been my biggest success with it so far). However, I am having difficulty using it with skills teaching - things that can't be boiled down to a quick sentence or two that needs to be memorized.
For example, in math we just finished a money chapter in which students needed to learn to calculate change, then express it in terms of coins. I had great difficulty trying to find a way to structure this in a way that would allow students to Teach-OK or do gestures the way they have done in, for example, science. The same type of thing happens in language arts, when I want to teach something more complex like how to edit a paragraph.
It could be that I wasn't able to think of a way to "chunk" these concept appropriately for the students. Maybe I just need to start anticipating these difficult topics and actually write down each micro-lecturing "chunk" before doing the lesson. On the other hand, it could be that some things simply can't be chunked in this way... I'll have to keep experimenting with this.
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