Plan activities in an organised manner that include familiar objects that allow children to build on previous experience and new elements that present a challenge to extend learning

Question

You are tasked to plan activities in an organised manner that include familiar objects that allow children to build on previous experience as well as new elements that present a

challenge to extend learning. Explain how you would carry out this task.

Answer 1

The answers to this question can vary. One thing I like to do is draw from the student experience. Every student can familiarize themselves with a new concept if you link it back to personal associations. If they are learning reading comprehension, create parallels between the characters of a story and their own lives. If students have to learn vocabulary or reading, try to connect their understanding of phonics to completely new terms.

If teaching English as a second language, use realia (physical objects) or images; students may learn new words and sentences via association. Students are also likely to remember and acquire knowledge if the teacher is upstanding and engaging. That is how the teacher’s disposition may factor into the learning process.

Introduce, reintroduce, then build on the old material with new material. So long as students have a foundation, you can plan to ensure that one lesson ties to the next and the one before it. In a lesson format, you can exemplify this through warm-ups, followed by new material, how new material ties back to old material, then practice.