Teaching Tip: The past is always with us.

This week’s principle from the Lifelong learning at Work and at Home website focuses on prior knowledge: New information learned depends heavily upon prior knowledge and experience. This principle stresses the importance of getting to know our students so we can help them learn more effectively.  From infancy onward, learning is based on building new [...]

Teaching Tip: Variety is the spice of learning

This week’s post summarizes and comments on two closely related principles from the Life Long Learning at Work and at Home website. Principle 2: Varying learning conditions makes learning more effortful but results in enhanced long-term retrieval. Principle 3:  Learning is generally enhanced when learners are required to take information that is presented in one [...]