zcbot/skills/ppt/references/modes/instructional.md

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Mode: instructional

Teaching-led exposition. Decompose a concept into ordered, digestible parts and build understanding step by step. For training, tutorials, explainers, onboarding, science / knowledge sharing.


1. Narrative skeleton

Decompose, then sequence: break the subject into parts and present them in a deliberate order (simple → complex, prerequisite → dependent, overview → detail).

One concept per page: each page teaches a single idea well; do not stack unrelated concepts.

Parallel exposition: sibling concepts get parallel structure — same shape, same depth — so the audience can compare and map them.

Show, then tell: lead with a concrete example or analogy, then state the principle. A worked example beats an abstract definition.

Signpost: orient the learner — what we covered, what comes next.

Titles state what the page teaches ("How attention weights are computed") — clear over clever.


2. Page-structure tendencies

  • Numbered steps / ordered flows for processes; parallel cards for sibling concepts.
  • Diagrams that build incrementally; annotate the part currently being explained.
  • A concrete example anchors each abstract point.

Step / flow / diagram geometry lives in templates/charts/; this mode decides the learning order and granularity.


3. Speaker-notes register

Patient, explanatory. Define before using; analogy then principle. Anticipate the learner's question and answer it. Steady pace; signpost transitions ("now that we have X, we can ask Y"). Conversational data. (Common framework: executor-base.md §8.)


4. Page skeleton example

Title:  "Step 2 — Scoring each token against the query"
Body:   concrete example (3 tokens) → the rule it illustrates → one diagram
Notes:  "Remember the query from the last page? Here's what it does next…"