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Teaching talent

Practice

Designed methods for teaching talent — steps, drills and pitfalls, not a promise.

Practice means designed work with feedback — Ericsson’s construct, not Gladwell’s hour ticket.

Where Macnamara et al. 2014 published domain bands (games ~26%, music ~21%, sports ~18%, education ~4%), this page uses those rounded figures and does not invent new precision.

Steps

  1. Pick one stuck point

    Not a whole course.

    Diagnosis.

  2. Invent a second picture

    Representation.

    Design.

  3. Try it with a learner

    A real zone.

    Vygotsky.

  4. Check two items

    Change score.

    Honesty.

  5. Rewrite the hint

    Fidelity plus adaptation.

    Debate.

  6. Show a colleague

    Lesson study.

    Collective.

Checklist

Drills

Pitfalls

Tools

Teaching talent: design the hour; retire the poster. Education is not a diagnosis.

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