The Power of Tethering: Mastering Knowledge with Kindness and Perseverance
Embrace the art of tethering to connect new knowledge with existing understandings. Explore the importance of kindness, perseverance, self-control, honesty, and excellence in creating memorable learning experiences. Discover how leveraging prior knowledge enhances learning outcomes.
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Mastering tethering Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Mastering expositions Our aim is a simple one we want to create memorable and durable encounters with new knowledge whenever we can. Tethering new knowledge to old knowledge Emphasising the important pieces of knowledge Storytelling, creating memorable + durable encounters Scripting and rehearsing our delivery Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Why tether? The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows How Learning Happens by Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick. Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
A case study Interdict Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
A case study Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
A case study Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Pause point 1 The most important factor influencing learning is A What the learner already knows B Behaviour C Storytelling 2 Existing frameworks of knowledge help to A Make abstract new information, concrete B Situate new learning within larger sequences C Both of the above Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Why is prior knowledge important? Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Why is prior knowledge important? Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Why is prior knowledge important? Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Why is prior knowledge important? Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Why is prior knowledge important? Our brains create and use schemas as a short cut to make future encounters with similar situations easier to navigate "Schemas in Psychology: Definition, Types & Examples." Study.com, 13 May 2015, study.com/academy/lesson/schemas-in-psychology-definition-types-examples.html Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Pause point 1 Information sticks to the sides of the forgetting pit when A We attach new information to schema B We tell stories and emphasise key information to make new knowledge memorable C Both of the above 2 Schema are A Existing frameworks of information B New pieces of learning C Both of the above Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
What relevance does this have to tethering? Prior knowledge facilitates processing of new incoming information, supposedly because it provides a structure into which the new information can be integrated, which may lead to an elaborated memory trace. However, having prior knowledge available does not suffice, it needs to be accessed and used to benefit encoding. The influence of prior knowledge on memory: a developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective, Brod, Shing, and Werkler-Bergner Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
How do we master tethering? Below are 4 strategies that we can use to tether old information to existing frameworks of knowledge Emphasise the narrative; recap and situate new learning within this Turn challenging concepts into analogies to help students grasp them Link unfamiliar concepts with things that students will already know Give multiple examples for concepts to help students grasp them (3 is good) Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Mastering expositions Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
Actions Grow your own flowers 1 2 3 Open a lesson and identify an upcoming exposition that you think may be difficult for children to grasp Use the strategies identified today to give an example of how you might tether this new content to old knowledge Script your exposition and share with your department Kindness Perseverance Self Control Honesty Excellence
