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Relevance

Learners recognize the significance that learning activities and objectives have to their interests and goals, prior knowledge, and real world, culturally relevant contexts.

Relevance is the significance that content, skills, and habits have to students, interests, goals, prior knowledge, and to real-world, culturally relevant contexts. Literature discusses a number of ways for educators to create relevance. Relevance is associated win improved learner mindsets, behaviors, and learning.

Relevance Look Fors

personal relevance, relevance

Learners connect the particular content or tasks they are focused on in the moment to their individual interests or short- and long-term goals.

academic relatedness, relevance

Learners connect the particular content or tasks they are focused on in the moment with their existing skills, habits, and knowledge, work completed to date, and future learning.

real-world authenticity, relevance

Learners connect the particular content or tasks they are focused on in the moment with authentic personal, local, and global situations and issues.

cultural relevance, relevance

Learners connect the particular content or tasks they are focused on in the moment with their individual cultural identity or community context.