Seeking PCK was a full (hour or longer) class at every mainline workshop since October 2016 (sometimes called “Seeking Sensibility” or “Seeking Sense”). After you left it was always a full hour+ class, almost always taught by Luke, and often on opening night.
The concept of PCK became part of the workshop content in April 2014 as a flash class (as a lead-in to the tutoring wheel, which was also introduced at that workshop). In October 2016 we added the full class, and then a couple workshops later we removed the flash class from the workshop. Something very close to this chapter made it into the first draft of the CFAR handbook in May 2016, when PCK was still just a flash class, and I guess the chapter didn’t ever get expanded or moved.
After the class was transferred from Val to Luke, Luke was involved in teaching it until the last pre-covid workshop in January 2020. I’m pretty sure he kept the subtraction exercise (that exercise wasn’t removed from the handbook, it just never made it in). A couple other people also taught the class at some point (including Duncan in April 2017), I’d guess at workshops where Val or Luke was absent.
At the January 2020 workshop a new instructor was learning the class & taught some of it along with Luke. I suspect that’s why it was part of the day 1 rotation that workshop rather than being opening night (since it’s helpful for a new instructor to have repetition & smaller groups, and a new instructor’s version of a class hasn’t necessarily cohered enough to be ready to set the tone for the workshop on opening night).
(This history mostly based on records I looked up, supplemented by memory.)
I honestly don’t know how to make the subtraction example work in a handbook format. It really does best as something interactive. A lot of the punch of it evaporates if folk don’t get a chance to encounter their confusion after getting their own prompts answered.
Seeking PCK was a full (hour or longer) class at every mainline workshop since October 2016 (sometimes called “Seeking Sensibility” or “Seeking Sense”). After you left it was always a full hour+ class, almost always taught by Luke, and often on opening night.
The concept of PCK became part of the workshop content in April 2014 as a flash class (as a lead-in to the tutoring wheel, which was also introduced at that workshop). In October 2016 we added the full class, and then a couple workshops later we removed the flash class from the workshop. Something very close to this chapter made it into the first draft of the CFAR handbook in May 2016, when PCK was still just a flash class, and I guess the chapter didn’t ever get expanded or moved.
After the class was transferred from Val to Luke, Luke was involved in teaching it until the last pre-covid workshop in January 2020. I’m pretty sure he kept the subtraction exercise (that exercise wasn’t removed from the handbook, it just never made it in). A couple other people also taught the class at some point (including Duncan in April 2017), I’d guess at workshops where Val or Luke was absent.
At the January 2020 workshop a new instructor was learning the class & taught some of it along with Luke. I suspect that’s why it was part of the day 1 rotation that workshop rather than being opening night (since it’s helpful for a new instructor to have repetition & smaller groups, and a new instructor’s version of a class hasn’t necessarily cohered enough to be ready to set the tone for the workshop on opening night).
(This history mostly based on records I looked up, supplemented by memory.)
Yep, this all sounds right to me.
I honestly don’t know how to make the subtraction example work in a handbook format. It really does best as something interactive. A lot of the punch of it evaporates if folk don’t get a chance to encounter their confusion after getting their own prompts answered.