6.8. If I only remember 3 things…

1. Examples should not be bundled together at the start of a lesson, but should be presented as example-problem pairs, followed by carefully chosen questions for students to complete, before returning to another example-problem pair.
2. Prompting students to self-explain during the completion of a worked example (Supercharged Worked Examples) makes them an even more effective tool of instruction and learning.
3. Domain-specific experts do not benefit as much from worked examples as novice learners, but we need to be very careful when making the decision that our students have acquired sufficient expertise.