The Foundation of Learning

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The Foundation for Learning

Students past interests, experiences, prior knowledge, references and thought processes can effective the way students learn, process information and remember due to prior experiences, how it made them feel and their personal views and attitude towards specific subjects and can alter the way they learn new material and concepts because of this meaningful learning is important. It is a teachers job to have teach students in a way that can relate to their background knowledge and insure that material in on a level the student an process. Material and lessons should be relevant to the student to make it easier to promote learning in the classroom. However, learning cannot occur without having a prior foundation because this gives a basis from which to build.

“The link between past experiences, student interest, and present learning is that we draw upon previous experiences and memories as we learn” (Slavin, 2006). It is the teachers responsibility to consider the past experiences of the student as well as interests in order ot make a lesson more appealing, engaging and interesting. By knowing the students background a teacher can better motivate and engage the student in new information. The students past experiences can help when building new concepts on top of foundational concepts. Students will learn more efficiently and smoothly if they have concepts to build upon instead of introducing unsystematic bits of information that become hard to connect and up confusing the student. Through sensory neurologist conclude that there are two important educational features present. The first is that learners have to pay attention to information presented so that it can be processed, stored and filed a...

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