Would you learn something better if I told you three examples that describe a pattern, or if I skipped that part and simply explained the pattern up front?
What if I explained the pattern up front, and then gave you the examples?
There’s not a right answer to this. People will have different answers. And we may not know ourselves well enough to give correct answers. Different answers might work better in different contexts, too.
How should this affect your strategy for teaching?
You’d want to know not just the thing you want to teach, but a bunch of meta information about the topic and the person and the situation and how that’ll all fit together well.
So maybe don’t be bummed if you don’t get it right on the first try.
