Teaching Breadth vs. Depth

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to teach all of the material because it was all so historically important to him. The response by his students was confusion and an overall lack of understanding. This proves that teaching the entire curriculum in depth can overwhelm the students learning process.
At a certain point there was a realization that he couldn't cover the entire course. "He began to realize that even if he hurried, even if he followed a strict schedule, and even if he did not do any of the fun things that he liked to do, he could not cover everything," according to Hansen. Numerous teachers encounter this problem every year in multiple academic subjects.
Once this reality is realized a teacher must then decide which topics to cover and which to skim over. This choice is extremely difficult because any of the topics could be on a standardized test. The solution to eliminating classes is not clear but it has to do with intuition and critical thinking by the teacher. Mr. Benson failed to make this ...

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