Constructivism holds that learners build their own understanding and knowledge through experiences. Key theorists like Piaget, Vygotsky, and Montessori believed that learning is an active process where students use prior knowledge and social interactions to construct new understanding. The 5E model is used to support a constructivist environment through engaging students, allowing exploration, having students explain their understanding, elaborating on concepts, and ongoing evaluation of learning. Teachers provide tools and guidance for inquiry-based learning while students collaborate to build their own knowledge.
Collaborative learning approach is an educational approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of learners working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product.
Collaborative learning approach is an educational approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of learners working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product.
This presentation was made by my group during our class presenatation for the course Pshycology in learning. The content is taken from internet, books and other materials
Reflective thinking/teaching
An approach that a teacher can employ towards his/her lessons. This approach is not multi-disciplinary thus it is to be carefully analyzed prior to employing this approach in any activity.
An assignment that I did for a PhD course. It introduces basics of reflective teaching. The forms indicated here were taken from Town High School District 214 website, and you can retrieve them from and reach more information on these techniques at http://www.d214.org/human_resources/observation_techniques_and_forms1.aspx
Constructivism a Methodical Learning ApproachRajeev Ranjan
Constructivism is a valid teaching strategy that employs five basic “Es” that is ‘engagement’, ‘exploration’, ‘explanation’, ‘elaboration’, and ‘evaluation’. Educators prime duty to facilitate learning opportunities for students. In fact, a great facilitator who handles the 21st century global learners should be wise enough to facilitates learning in the class considering the pressure of 21st century learner’s smartness, who operates very sophisticated software and apps but least interested in classroom learning.
3. How did Constructivism come about? Vygotsky believed that learning needs to be engaging. Vygotsky believed that learning takes place as children are interacting with each other and exploring their environment. He believed that learning is simultaneous to social interaction and exploration. In other words, he did not feel as though one was more important than the other. Jean Piaget 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980 Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky November 17, 1896 – June 11, 1934 Piaget believed that children learn through organization and schemas. He believed that by organizing concepts and ideas, children place them into schemas. He believed that children are in control of the knowledge that they are provided and move forward in construct their own learning by taking part in social activities and exploration
7. How Do Teachers Support a Constructivist Environment? Teacher engages students by providing knowledge expansion tools the students use, collaboratively and cooperatively through inquiry, exploration, teamwork, whole group discussions, and evaluation. Listen Collaborate Explore Evaluate Advantages: Students … LISTEN to their peers COLLABORATE with group members Disadvantages: Requires extensive planning time EXPLORE independently Teacher EVALUATES what students learned
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9. Constructivism: Engage In the stage Engage, the students first encounter and identify the instructional task. Teachers must engage students in their lessons in order for them to learn. Engage students by: guiding whole group discussions, asking students to explain what they learned, working together in small groups to complete projects or tasks.
10. Constructivism: explore In the Exploration stage the students have the opportunity to get directly involved with phenomena and materials. Students inquire, work together, form hypotheses, learn about new ideas and concepts on their own before coming together as a whole class. Students develop an idea of what they may think an object or idea is, then explore it further to see if their idea was accurate. Students use tools such as textbooks, the internet, scientific instruments, and their creative minds to explore new concepts.
11. Constructivism: explain Explain , is the point at which the learner begins to put the abstract experience through which she/he has gone /into a communicable form. The student will define and explain the current concept using their own words. The student will accomplish this using informational readings, group discussions, and teacher interaction. Learners will support each other by sharing their ideas, observations, questions, and hypotheses.
12. Constructivism: elaborate To Elaborate the students expand on the concepts they have learned, make connections to other related concepts, and apply their understandings to the world around them. Students will expand their learning on the concepts by making connections to related concepts and applying their understanding to the world around them. This will help students make connections that will lead them to more inquiry which will lead to new understandings.
13. Constructivism: evaluate Evaluate, the fifth "E", is an on-going diagnostic process that allows the teacher to determine if the learner has attained understanding of concepts and knowledge. Constructivism encourages teachers to assess their students learning on an ongoing basis. In traditional classrooms, assessment would be paper tests taken by the students after the content was taught and in which they received a grade. In a constructivist classroom the teacher assesses the students work and adapts the lesson plan to meet the needs of the learner.
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