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University of the People Master of Education in Advanced Instruction Educ 5210: Learning Theory Unit 7: Understanding Learner Characteristics

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University of the People Master of Education in Advanced Instruction Educ 5210: Learning Theory Unit 7: Understanding Learner Characteristics Instructor: Dr. Chad Weirick March 17, 2021 Activati... ng Students’ Prior Knowledge through K-W-L Charts and Interpretation of TopicRelated Pictures Introduction The activation of the prior knowledge in the learners’ comprehension is of utmost importance since it encourages the students to relate their personal experiences to the new information. The teacher can take advantage of the student's prior knowledge as an initial step in the learning process. This will give the teacher to construct an appropriate plan and time frame to deliver new topics to the learners. A schema is a framework cognition or any other concept which guides, organize and interpret information (Gans, 2019). This can be very functional since this allows us to take shortcuts in the interpretation of so much information available. As the schema theory is being applied in the learning process, activities that make sense such as reading comprehensions continuously linked the new knowledge to the experiences of the reader. Prior knowledge can be activated using the different instructional approaches. The six evidence-based approaches are reflection and recording, interactive discussion, answering questions, K-W-L, Contact-2, and interpretation of topic-related pictures (Strangman et al., [Show More]

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