Connecting School and Home Experiences

With FCSE there are so many experiences that I had in my home and many students have before they get to school and into our classrooms. One type of experience that I had in my home as a child was with nutrition and cooking. So going into my cooking classes in high school and middle school I had some experience and appreciated my teachers for acknowledging the things that I knew.

In my classroom I would like to help students draw from the their backgrounds to help them succeed in my classroom. For example in a class such as interior design I would have them bring in pictures or drawings of buildings or homes that they are familiar with. If you draw on things they are familiar with they will be more likely to remember the information you teach them. To show this I will give an example I would like to use in my classroom.
I would have the students bring a picture of a room that they are familiar with, whether it be in their home, a room of a TV show set, or a place they hang out in. I would teach they students a concept such as line or color and have the students analyze the concept in their own room. The students will be more likely to remember the concept if they can link it to something familiar.