The Unteachables Podcast

#41: What Is the Conscious Competence Ladder, and Why You Need to Know About It for Learning, Behavior, and Your Own Professional Development.


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One of the things that used to really grind my gears as a teacher was when I was trying to teach a new skill to students, whether it be an analytical response or a piece of creative writing, and they would say something like the following:

“I know how to do this already”
“This is baby work, I did it in Year 3”,

Or the worst one…

“Why do I have to learn English, I already speak the language!!”

Of course as a teacher I COULD spend a chunk of the lesson explaining until I am blue in the face about how there is a progression of skills, how English as a subject permeates everything we do, how the writing they did in Year 3 is not the writing I am expecting of them.

And I did. Often. 

Now? I understand that all of us, human beings in general, simply don’t know, what we don’t know!!

So what do I do instead?

I teach them about the conscious competence ladder (not necessarily using that lingo). 

Listen in to this week’s podcast as I go over what the Conscious Competence Ladder is, and why it is such a valuable theory to support us in teaching our students, and applying in our own practice.

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