I think even “a detailed picture of the topic of the lesson” can be too high of an expectation for many topics early on. (Ideally it wouldn’t be, if things were taught well, but they often aren’t.) A better goal would be to have just something you understand well enough that you can grab on to, that you can start building out from.
Like if the topic was a puzzle, it’s fine if you don’t have a rough sense of where every puzzle piece goes right away. It can be enough that you have a few corner pieces in place, that you then start building out from.
I think even “a detailed picture of the topic of the lesson” can be too high of an expectation for many topics early on. (Ideally it wouldn’t be, if things were taught well, but they often aren’t.) A better goal would be to have just something you understand well enough that you can grab on to, that you can start building out from.
Like if the topic was a puzzle, it’s fine if you don’t have a rough sense of where every puzzle piece goes right away. It can be enough that you have a few corner pieces in place, that you then start building out from.
Yes, but sometimes topics can seem to be simple (atomic) in a way that it is hard to extract something simpler to grab on.
True!