Connecting Learning with the Child's Experience

A fundamental key to learning anything is interest.

When a child is deeply interested in anything—be it bicycle riding or algebra—he or she learns it eagerly and quickly. For a teacher, therefore, it is important to take into consideration the child’s interest and life experiences to know how to connect a topic or subject matter to the child so that he or she can be interested in it and make sense of it. 

Any child is interested to learn something that affects him or her personally. 

Finding those links is a key to creating a learning environment where children welcome, remember and make use of what they learn.