Students learn faster when a new concept is explicitly shown to be similar to a concept they have already learned in previous classes or through life experiences. Everything we teach has some component that students are familiar with that we can highlight to give students a starting place for new learning.
View all the videos in the "Five Gears for Activating Learning" series here:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw72L0zyKkCtkdyPsZ1H1F3Q8V6rDrUtG
Read more about the "Five Gears" here:
https://www.csun.edu/cielo/teaching-learning-group.html
