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Approaches in Activating Students’ Prior Knowledge University of the People EDUC 5210: LEARNING THEORY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTION

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Approaches in Activating Students’ Prior Knowledge Anonymous Department of Education, University of the People EDUC 5210: LEARNING THEORY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTION Dr. Sonja Lopez-Arnak ... December 27, 20202 Approaches in Activating Students’ Prior Knowledge Prior knowledge is information that we already know before learning new knowledge or information. It is a previous experience from what we heard, read, and saw before that related to the topic of the new learning. The human system functions similar to a computer: It receives information, stores it in memory, and retrieves it as necessary (Schunk, 2012). In the classroom, the students are bringing different learning backgrounds and prior knowledge to gain new learning. By being able to know their prior and background knowledge of the lesson, it will be easier for the teacher to plan and design the learning. From the reading of Strangman, Hall, and Meyer (2004), there are six evidence-based approaches identified that teachers can consider using to better engage students in the classroom: Reflection and recording, Interactive discussion, Answering questions, K-W-L, CONTACT-2, Interpretation of topic-related pictures. This paper will discuss the implementation of two approaches, the K-W-L and the Interpretation of topic-related pictures, in the classroom and the limitation of each of the approaches [Show More]

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