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Henderson, Peter; Hodgen, Jeremy; Foster, Colin; Kuchemann, Dietmar – Education Endowment Foundation, 2022
This guidance report focuses on improving the quality of teaching of mathematics to pupils in Key Stages 2 and 3. The decision to focus on these Key Stages was made after an initial consultation period with teachers, academics, and other stakeholders. Schools are seeking advice on adjusting to a new curriculum, and there is also concern about…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Mathematics Education, Curriculum Development
Stevenson, Carolyn N., Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
Institutions of higher learning are providing access to free and low-cost open resources to support students with prior college-level learning during every step of their educational journey. This unconventional approach to education removes traditional barriers to college credit by placing learners in an open environment, which encourages…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Open Educational Resources, Prior Learning
Clark, Amy; Henderson, Peter; Gifford, Sue – Education Endowment Foundation, 2020
"Improving Mathematics in the Early Years and Key Stage 1" reviews the best available evidence to offer five recommendations for developing the maths skills of 3-7-year olds. Recommendations include integrating maths into different activities throughout the day -- for example, at registration and snack time -- to familiarise children…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
Berliner, David; Casanova, Ursula – Instructor, 1986
Recent studies using graduate students in one case and first graders in the other reached the same conclusion. If instruction capitalizes on what students already know, they learn more readily and transfer the knowledge well. Teachers can use children's knowledge as a bridge to new knowledge. (MT)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Prior Learning, Student Experience, Teaching Methods
Ormrod, Jeanne Ellis – 2000
A teacher educator developed several exercises to illustrate the related concepts of "meaningful learning" (relating new information to prior knowledge) and "elaboration" (using prior knowledge to expand on new information and to make better sense of it). The exercises demonstrate that learning is easier and retention is better…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods
Davis, Ken – 1983
Just as all perceptions are of figures differentiated from a larger background, a play takes place against the background of the audience's knowledge and feelings. While audience members generally bring to a performance a large body of background information--they evaluate the storyline, for example, using a lifetime of personal experience--at…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Audiences, Background, Cultural Enrichment

Gunston-Parks, Cynthia; Thomas, Keith J. – Reading Horizons, 1986
Discusses four classroom writing activities that can be subsumed within the content area learning environment: anticipatory questioning, notetaking, using graphic organizers, and writing summary paragraphs. (FL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Prior Learning, Secondary Education
Webre, Elizabeth C. – 2002
Integrating the use of a social studies text, trade books, and writing can be a daunting task for teachers in grades 5-7. A sample lesson used with senior level preservice teachers enrolled in a content area reading course is the focus of this paper. Suggestions for duplicating the lesson in a middle school setting are included. The lesson…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Lesson Plans, Middle Schools, Poetry

Spyridakis, Jan H.; Wenger, Michael J. – British Educational Research Journal, 1991
Reviews the literature on the effect of prior knowledge and text familiarity on document comprehension and usability. Discusses current methods for assessing subjects' topic familiarity. Presents an empirically based method for effectively assessing topic familiarity. Explains that the method includes use of two subject groups and reliance on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Familiarity, Higher Education, Prior Learning
Cicurel, Francine – Francais dans le Monde, 1991
An interactive approach to teaching French second-language reading comprehension is described. The method emphasizes involving the readers in the comprehension process and encouraging them to draw on prior learning to create hypotheses about the text's content. A four-stage instructional process is outlined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, French, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
Wolcott, Lisa – Teacher Magazine, 1991
This article profiles a high school physics teacher who received a grant to conduct research, with his own classes, designed to identify students' preconceptions about the physical world, explore ways teachers can use those preconceptions to teach physical laws, and prepare classroom materials that teachers can use to teach physics. (IAH)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Grants, High Schools, Physics

Mack, Nancy K. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1998
Presents an approach for teaching the multiplication of fractions by helping students build a foundation on the basis of their informal knowledge. Suggests some action research ideas for teachers to try in their classrooms. (ASK)
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Fractions, Mathematics Activities

Duffelmeyer, Frederick A. – Reading Teacher, 1985
Argues that vocabulary is best taught by helping students experience the meaning of words. Offers research background and four teaching methods to use with intermediate grade students. (FL)
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Prior Learning, Reading Instruction, Reading Research

Frager, Alan M. – Clearing House, 1985
Discusses List-Group-Preview, an activity that combines eliciting prior knowledge with guiding students through a new textbook chapter. (FL)
Descriptors: Classification, Learning Activities, Prior Learning, Reading Ability

Kelly, Leonard P. – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1994
A study with 18 deaf high school students found that skills that actually contribute to reading proficiency included use of prior text information, prior knowledge, reading speed and consistency, use of active memory for function words and inflections, and correct processing of relative clauses and the passive voice. Instructional implications are…
Descriptors: Deafness, Grammar, High Schools, Prior Learning