Connecting New & Old Ideas
Look for connections between new ideas and things you already know — how does this fit with what I've learned before?
Teaching approaches
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When your child learns something new, do they ever say things like 'oh, that's like...' and connect it to something they already knew?
Look for connections between new ideas and things you already know — how does this fit with what I've learned before?
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- elaborative encoding
- schema theory (Bartlett, Rumelhart)
“When your child learns something new, do they ever say things like 'oh, that's like...' and connect it to something they already knew?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- Learning to Learn
- Domain
- Learning to Learn
- Age range
- Ages 7–8