Rohwer Skill Acquisition Pyramid
I've been talking to my students for a while about my pyramid of learning skills and wanted to share some of the insights I've gleaned as to how people learn how to do stuff, more particularly as it applies to the arts. These are kind of the rambling thoughts I've had on the subject, and might be a little scattered still a the moment as I am still developing the ideas that are here. As I got finished teaching a few students one day, I realized that their pattern of learning followed a certain path, and that that same path was the same for me as I was beginning to learn how to play, and it has continued since then down that same path. With these insights, I started to formulate a model for how people not only learn how to play music, but how they learn to a number of different skills. What I came up with was this: Learning a new skill first involves the basic technique of how to do it. For musicians, this involves the functions of holding an instrument and m...