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CONSTRUCTIVIST (Methods (Teachers should generally behave in an…
CONSTRUCTIVIST
Methods
Teachers should generally behave in an interactive manner mediating the environment for students where student questions are highly valued.
Teachers should have lessons where “hands- on” experimentation, problem solving, logical reasoning, and authentic learning are emphasized
Teachers should seek the students point of view in order to understand student learning for use in subsequent lessons.
Assessment of student learning should be interwoven with teaching and occur through teacher observation of students at work and through presentations and portfolios.
Strategies
Use teaching strategies that require students to make a construct. (Presenting information is not enough.) Students must apply, use, or process the information. Ensure that all students are participating in making constructs; holding them accountable for their learning.
Constructivist teaching should be characterized by the following:
- the learners are actively involved
- the environment is democratic
- the activities are interactive and student-centered
Example of the activities for constructivist is:
- Role-playing ( By simply letting the students take on the role of various book characters, famous historical and current affairs figures, the students shall be better able to deeply comprehend)
- Hands-on, creative ideas (Let a process of exchange of ideas, let the students work on the presentation of solutions by way of various creative activities, such as choral recitation, commercials, flyers, multimedia presentations)
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WHAT IS CONSTRUCTIVIST?
- Constructivism is ‘an approach to learning that holds that people actively construct or make their own knowledge and that reality is determined by the experiences of the learner’ (Elliott et al., 2000:256).
- In elaborating constructivists’ ideas Arends (1998) states that constructivism believes in personal construction of meaning by the learner through experience, and that meaning is influenced by the interaction of prior knowledge and new events.
- Constructivism's central idea is that human learning is constructed, that learners build new knowledge upon the foundation of previous learning.