Beliefs about learning

  "Learning is constructed as learners assimilate new experience with prior knowledge". To have a successful lesson during a period, in my science domain for example, you should always start the lesson with building up a prior knowledge about the information you are going to explain to the students. You should ask them for example for daily life examples related to the topic, it might be with them every day, but they don't even think about it. That will make the beginning of the period so attractive that the students will be waiting for what's coming up next, they will be activated from the beginning of the period. Then through the explanation, it is the teacher responsibility to create a balance between students' time receiving information and practicing skills, and their time constructing, assimilating and applying information in real life situations.