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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
