How important it is to elicit prior knowledge when teaching a lesson?
Prior knowledge that everyone has before learning a new thing.
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You want your student to be interactive during lessons, but it is always best to test prior knowledge, otherwise you could endure a lesson where the student does not really engage or participate, or they have prior knowledge and are willing to engage and learn something new.
Crucial for effective learning teaching.
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The importance of activating prior learning in every lesson can be compared to a warm up before exercising. It it engages, reactivates and stimulates active learning alongside boosting confidence.
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Repeat the words a lot and give a context to it, plus the picture of it. Find synonyms, make the student create sentences using the new vocab and finally of they write down a story using these new words, they won't probably forget about them easily :)
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