a. I think a concept is the "big picture" you teaching to. It encompasses many smaller subcategories and underlying processes but a concept looks more at an idea you're trying to understand rather than a process you're trying to master.
b. As a teacher, I was the Student Council sponsor the middle-school group and this was their first experience with a service organization. Trying to teach them the concept of being leaders was challenging. There were definitely processes involved - community service, networking with other school groups, assigning tasks to increase responsibility. The concept of leadership was taught through these processes, but also through my own leadership of them and open discussions about why leaders are important and how they felt after helping others and accomplishing tasks. I'd like to think this concept was ingrained in several of them through this process.
c. I think that a lesson needs to be developed based on the process needing to be mastered as well as the underlying concept to be understood. Being a math teacher, many students would question the "why" of learning processes but if they had more understanding of the concept why, I think they would accept the process why more.
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