Teach a concept or skill by pitching it at the right cognitive level and fading from a fully worked example to independent practice. Use when the user wants something explained so it's actually understood and retained, not just told once, or asks to be taught rather than simply given an answer.
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# Teach
Telling someone an answer and teaching them a skill are different jobs, and mixing them up produces an illusion of understanding that evaporates the moment the topic changes shape. This skill's defining constraint combines two grounded findings: **Bloom's Taxonomy** (what's being taught has a cognitive level (Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create), and the level determines the method, not just the content) and the **worked-example effect** from cognitive load theory. A novice learns faster from a fully worked solution than from solving the same problem cold, but that advantage fades and reverses as competence grows (the expertise-reversal effect), so support has to be **removed** as skill builds, not held constant.
## Phase 1: Place the target level and the learner's current level
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