1. Awareness of Prior knowledge is the most significant factor in helping a science teacher be successful.
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2. Active Learning Incorporate new knowledge into cognitive structure
Link new knowledge with higher order concepts in cognitive structure
Relate new knowledge with everyday experiences
Relate new knowledge to prior learning.

3. Learning Theories Piaget’s Assimilation & Accommodation
Bruner’s Spiral curriculum
Ausubel’s Meaningful learning
Schema theory
Constructivists: Learners build their meanings on the basis of what they have in minds.(Driver et al,1994)

4. What is prior knowledge?
Concepts from the prior formal educations.
Intuitive ideas from the life experiences
Prior knowledge also exists at the levels of perception, focus of attention, procedural skills, modes of reasoning, and beliefs about knowledge. (Roshelle, 1995)

5. The Roles of Prior Knowledge
a foundation for learning.
=> Teacher need to activate or provide prior knowledge.
a barrier to understanding.
=> Teacher need to challenge and restructure prior knowledge.

6. Science Teacher’s Skills
Science learning is conceptual change.
Eliciting and Diagnosing students’ prior knowledge to prepare remedial instructions
Integration of students’ prior knowledge into teaching practice