Decoding the Disciplines

A seven-step paradigm in which instructors locate the specific 'bottlenecks' where many students get stuck, surface the tacit mental operations that disciplinary experts perform automatically (typically through a structured two-on-one 'decoding interview'), and then model, practice, motivate, assess, and share teaching designed to move students through those bottlenecks.

Inside this handbook: the framework distilled, the AI-integration question that matters now, and the one move you can run Monday.