Sentences with phrase «constructivist classrooms»

The authors cover a variety of topics and offer rationale for listening to students, barriers to student involvement, engaging «student voice» in constructivist classrooms, issues of social justice and authenticity, and how pre-service teachers can — and must — learn from students.

In constructivist classrooms, students build their understanding of the world as a result of their actions.

They point out that teachers in constructivist classrooms, contrary to the popular misconception, do use external control when necessary.

In a constructivist classroom like this, the teacher can inspire students to seek out knowledge, construct meaning, and connect and apply their learning to the larger world beyond the classroom.

Social studies teachers and technology: Activities for the constructivist classroom.

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His work is referenced midway in this article on being constructivist in a Common Core classroom.

Constructivist pedagogical guidelines are forced on classroom teachers in weekly «professional development» sessions that are closer to a military boot camp than any serious inquiry into the best classroom practices.

Observations: The beauty of having a constructivist, student - directed classroom?

Valencia and Au found that classroom portfolios contained artifacts consistent with the constructivist literacy curriculum frameworks at both sites.

«This study shows that the flipped classroom does not result in higher learning gains or better attitudes over the nonflipped classroom when both utilize an active - learning, constructivist approach.

All the way, the instructor circulated the classroom activating prior knowledge and stimulating the constructivist approach by asking how their planned approach might activate their future students» prior knowledge.

For the most part, they look more deeply at literacy than either policy or measurement researchers by examining specific aspects of literacy instruction (e.g., writing process, qualities of writing, alignment of assessment with constructivist curriculum frameworks in literacy, specificity of state standards) and by situating much of their work in classrooms or in direct interactions with teachers.

While they are classroom - based, they are not the stuff of constructivist - based reform.

Leveraging constructivist learning in the social studies classroom.

Moreover, actively engaging in constructivist learning designs with and through technology will afford students the opportunity to see and feel how such engagements play out in their own classrooms.

The authors discuss the development of classroom norms and rules from a constructivist point of view.

Moral Classrooms, Moral Children: Creating a Constructivist Atmosphere in Early Education.

According to researcher Shelley Billig, the anecdotal evidence indicates that when service learning has a strong connection to standards, its student - centered, constructivist approach clearly benefits classroom practice.

Rheta DeVries and Betty Zan, Moral Classrooms, Moral Children: Creating a Constructivist Atmosphere in Early Education (New York: Teachers College Press, 1994), p. 253.

Whether your preference is for Inquiry Based Learning, Constructivist Learning, Experiential Learning, or one of the various other labels for or sub-categories of Active Learning, there are applications and resources available to enable this teaching construct in your classroom.

Technology - enriched ELA classrooms have the ability to support student - centered, constructivist learning environments, which in turn, may offer advantages for student learning in the secondary English classroom.

Many teachers are looking to increase a student - centered, constructivist focus to learning in their classrooms, believing that students need to be actively engaged in seeking and understanding meaning.

Technology roots Power Center Academy classrooms in the constructivist approach, which offers students the opportunity to design their own learning experiences.

As a result, curricula were developed that integrated the content standards into teaching and learning within classrooms, and the overall practices within buildings came to reflect a more social - constructivist approach.

JoBeth Allen and a group of classroom teachers (2002) wrote of how they used photography to make their students» lives a central part of a constructivist and culturally relevant curriculum, an approach advocated by Ladson - Billings (1994).

Leveraging constructivist learning in the social studies classroom: A response to Mason, Berson, Diem, Hicks, Lee, and Dralle.

She, along with two elementary reading consultants, had an active interest in reforming language arts teaching, and they viewed MELAF as an opportunity to further encourage constructivist practices in language arts classrooms.

Thus, the technology learning was situated within the teachers» own classroom setting and instruction, supported by informal discourse community focused on technology integration at the school sites, and guided by constructivist approaches to teaching and learning with technologies.