Life experiences serve as powerful learning supports. Give students opportunities to use personal experiences to acquire new knowledge, using both episodic and semantic memory. By giving examples from experience students are able to retain a higher percentage of content and find ways to apply it. Transfer of learning is based on using real world application and practice to move knowledge to working memory. The 4 cornerstones that can be used by instructors to motivate and inspire are: sharing expertise/model industry expectation, have and express empathy and give students reasonable amounts of work that focus on the objectives, enthusiasm for the subject/career, and to be very clear in expectation/well prepared and able to think on your feet or respond appropriately. Feedback should be frequent.
