core knowledge
Basic required learning
Core knowledge refers to fundamental information or understanding considered essential within a field, curriculum, or domain.
In education, it often designates a specific body of facts, skills, and cultural literacy that students should acquire: The core knowledge curriculum emphasizes shared cultural references.
More broadly, it means the baseline understanding needed before advancing: You need some core knowledge of statistics before taking this course.
- fundamentalForming the base
- essentialFundamentally necessary
- foundationalServing as a base
- basicsFoundational knowledge of something
- back to basicsRefocusing on core principles
curriculum · grade level · subject matter · literacy · building blocks · schema · background · bedrock · scaffolding · domain · expertise · comprehension · deep understanding · cultural literacy · content · key concepts · concepts · elementary
- prior knowledgebackground, expertise, prerequisite, memory, familiarity
- pedagogyteaching methods, teaching, teaching strategies, teaching models, teaching techniques
- Education Trendsblended learning, flipped classroom, personalized learning, STEM, online learning
core knowledgeelectives
Freely chosen courses
specializations · elective courses · extracurriculars · enrichment activities · vocational training
core knowledgespecialized knowledge
Focused skill in one area
niche expertise · esoteric knowledge · arcane knowledge · minutiae · trivia
core, knowledge, cores, cored, coring, know, knows, known, knowing