I would also suggest that it's important to find out what the student knows already, so that you can take them from what they know to what they need to know. For example, has the student seen an orange before? Has he seen a peeled orange, or just an unpeeled one? If I were to teach him to use a method that involved using a knife, I'd also want to know if he knew how to use a knife already....
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