Activating Prior Knowledge and Building Background

READY SET GO WHOA

What do I know? What new information do I What new information do I What questions do I still have?
think I will gather? have?

● Background knowledge is ● We are anticipating ● Representation, ● At what point does

an important aspect of a
lesson as to scaffold the
lesson for the student.
● Ability to use a multitude of
education techniques is
important to be able to
reach the greatest amount
of students in a way that
will allow them to best
absorb the information.
● We already know multiple
lesson building techniques.
● We know what our content
fields are like and the
strategies generally used
within each.
gathering new techniques Transmission,
and information on how to Transferability, and
provide and build off Endurance are the big
background knowledge in differences between true
lessons. background knowledge
● Learning new ways to and incidental knowledge.
apply background Incidental knowledge can
knowledge in order to be transformed into
allow us to spend more background knowledge
class time on new with the proper
knowledge. techniques.
● Learning how to anticipate ● New techniques such as
different types of the carousel walk or the
background knowledge textbook scavenger hunts.
that students may already ● Better ways to build
have gained without background knowledge
realising it. such as direct experience,
which includes field trips
or demonstrations of the
topic.
background knowledge
simply become what we
need to teach them?
● How do we fix the failures
of teachers before us
when they didn’t give the
necessary background
knowledge for the class
I’m teaching?
● Which ‘before reading’
strategies outlined in the
powerpoint would work
best for the different
content fields?
● Is there another way to
apply the text attainment
strategy of the yes and no
examples to more than
just pictures?

Links to Project:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14rq2FIAtrhLYojjgfC6uOLfEOBwEWIwBnZqa
9qTxb1k/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wgN8q95G2Q01E6cI2eXSw6mcx02jTATw9kC1y8JuLf8/edit?usp=sharing