A yearlong plunge
into constructivist teaching strengthens urban science teachers» practice.
Allowing productive struggle to occur, using artistic and scientific instruction, modeling symphonic thinking, and encouraging students to lean
into constructivist problem solving can lead to the holy grail of transformational teaching: epiphany.
Not exact matches
There are, in the history of philosophy, continually renewed controversies between those who, where the theory of knowledge is concerned, are commonly called realists, and those who are sometimes called idealists, but also
constructivists, between those for whom truth resides in the end in correspondence between proposition and fact, and those for whom it is something brought
into being by more or less autonomous understanding.
Claire Denis has been one of the great directors from the start, an emotional
constructivist whose gift for hyper - specific observation and elegiac, elliptical editing transforms even her bleakest films
into sensual evocations of her characters» innermost urges.
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.
The first was for state education departments that aligned their math standards with NCTM's and school districts that adopted
constructivist math programs aligned with NCTM's standards; the second, for the development of commercial mathematics texts that also followed the NCTM party line, a spending program that now took NSF
into the textbook business.
According to Dr. Helen Barrett (PDF), portfolios fall
into two categories: the positivist approach (using portfolios for learning), and the
constructivist approach (using portfolios as learning).
You have kind of tiptoed
into the great education debate between the
constructivists and the direct instruction / behaviorists.
In the United States, the ancient debate that Bennett revisits has reinvented itself as a struggle between the standardized assessors, anxious to inject knowledge
into students, most especially those most in need of social and economic advancement, and the
constructivists, eager to coach, to discuss, to explore the «natural» learning instincts of every child.
Studies reported hands - on activity as: conducting inquiry - based science activities (Freeman et al., 1994), developing a curriculum guide (Fortner & Boyd, 1995), participation in
constructivist - based workshops (Khourey - Bowers et al., 2005) and conducting research
into student knowledge (Even, 1999).
The students were to view video clips modeling lesson components and to synthesize the ideas they gathered
into their own
constructivist lesson.
Conversely, integrating technology
into coursework has moved teachers to adopt more student - centered and
constructivist practices (Roblyer & Edwards, 2000).
In this model instruction can be classified
into the teacher - led direct instruction of the giving mode of instruction, the teacher - scaffolded student exploration of the prompting mode, and the
constructivist approach of the making model, in which students learn through product creation.
This flows
into the next section in which he discusses the most used SCL methodologies: active learning, cooperative learning, collaborative learning, and
constructivist learning.
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.
Assertion 2: The preservice teachers» perceptions of social studies, teaching social studies, and integrating technology when teaching social studies were positively influenced by the instructor's modeling of
constructivist teaching methods and her integration of technology
into these methods.
Ramsey Musallam is working with the flipped model to address Noschese's observation and push the practice
into a more
constructivist experience.
They play on
Constructivist forms - among their inspirations, according to Genzken, were the Proun rooms of El Lissitzky ± but also show the influence of Barnett Newman and Lucio Fontana, extending Newman's zips and Fontana's slashes
into the space of the viewer.
The show comprises a recent collection of 100 drawings scanned
into a software program that was designed specifically as an interpretive device — a method that summons to mind the technological forays of
Constructivist art.
Calder remained committed to abstraction during the 1930s and introduced biomorphic forms
into his kinetic sculptures, synthesising
Constructivist methods and materials with abstract forms that recall Surrealist imagery.
From the outset his art was based on space and a
constructivist organisation, which led to works of great formal rigour, where drawing, painting and sculpture were integrated
into a spatial dimension that was architectural in scope.
Kendrick's art is indebted on the one hand to the emphasis on touch brokered by New York School artists of the de Kooning ilk and on the other to the
constructivist rigors of the minimalist art that nudged its way
into dominance in the 70's.
Having begun his venture
into abstraction through cubist fragmentation and the
constructivist composition of geometric planes, Browne later branched out
into biomorphism, his gestural style influencing the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorsky, and Willem de Kooning.
Josef Albers, the German artist who fled Europe, was part of the
Constructivist and Bauhaus movements and was part of what brought this hard edge
into abstraction in the United States.
(Flavin — who had trained as a priest before going
into the air force and then turning to art — had a well - documented obsession with Russian art and later dedicated a group of fluorescent light «monuments» to the
Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin, who had trained as an icon painter.)
Generative to a
Constructivist mise - en - scène, his elusive, yet stylized (and impossibly proportioned) female figures are cast
into psychological compositions where humor and melancholy co-exist.
The buoyant impact of Calder's creatures has spread far and wide, in the likes of Chris Burden, Mark di Suvero, George Rickey, Pae White, Tim Hawkinson, Niki de Saint Phalle, Nick Cave, Andy Goldsworthy, Olafur Eliasson, Dale Chihuly, and others — where would contemporary art be without his discovery that animation was an essential expansion of Cubist collage, Futurism's frozen dynamism, and the
Constructivist expansion
into space?
«Drawing upon the Cubo - futurist,
Constructivist and Suprematist design principles of his native Russia as well as the utilitarian pragmatism of the German Bauhaus, Kozyrev juxtaposes these modernist tropes with a Vermeer - like Dutch interior or the depiction of a ruined bunker in Finland, exploding the images» contextual logic
into a postmodern pastiche of historical culture.
Elsewhere Costa has deployed coloured polythene bags (rubbish and recycling sacks from different London boroughs) to create geometrical wall pieces akin to
Constructivist paintings; while in a series of small - scale paintings, he combines the methods and motifs of embroidery, collage and cartoons Quoting artistic precursors in seemingly degraded materials or formats, Costa playfully interrogates the «real value» of works of art, addressing the question of how unspectacular or even desultory materials might transmute
into an art object and vice versa.
-- planning to integrate technology to support learning in your developmentally appropriate program — evaluating digital products to ensure they align with
constructivist approaches, as well as preschool standards — integrating technology
into learning centers in child - initiated programs.