ERIC Number: EJ330704
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Use What Kids Know to Teach the New.
Berliner, David; Casanova, Ursula
Instructor, v95 n7 p12-13 Mar 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)
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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