High School Science - NEE 2.5 Builds on students’ prior experiences, learning strengths, and needs

The teacher communicates awareness of students’ prior knowledge. The teacher begins learning activities by activating prior knowledge almost all the time or considers the prior knowledge of almost all of the students.

In the classroom, this might look like:

• Activates the prior knowledge of almost all students

• Makes many connections to knowledge web

• Refers strongly and repeatedly to content from other lessons or units

• Builds on the experiences of each student and adapts lesson as needed

• In the early childhood classroom the teacher consistently builds on learners’ prior knowledge and experience

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High School Science