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What Is Constructivism

Constructivism is a theory of learning that states that learners actively construct knowledge based on their own experiences rather than passively receiving information. Each student brings a unique perspective to the classroom based on their individual experiences. In a constructivist classroom, learning is interactive and student-centered, with teachers facilitating dialogue to help students develop their own understandings. Assessment includes student work and activities that allow students to apply their learning to new situations through assimilation of new information into existing knowledge frameworks or accommodation by revising existing frameworks. The teacher's role is to interact and negotiate with students, focusing on group work, discussions, and interactions that allow students to construct knowledge socially and build understanding around big ideas.

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What Is Constructivism

Constructivism is a theory of learning that states that learners actively construct knowledge based on their own experiences rather than passively receiving information. Each student brings a unique perspective to the classroom based on their individual experiences. In a constructivist classroom, learning is interactive and student-centered, with teachers facilitating dialogue to help students develop their own understandings. Assessment includes student work and activities that allow students to apply their learning to new situations through assimilation of new information into existing knowledge frameworks or accommodation by revising existing frameworks. The teacher's role is to interact and negotiate with students, focusing on group work, discussions, and interactions that allow students to construct knowledge socially and build understanding around big ideas.

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What is constructivism

Is the theory that says learners construct knowledge rather than just
passively take information, it’s based around the idea that learners are
active participant in their learning journey.
Knowledge is constructed based on experiences. Each students those
enterers your classroom has a unique perspective on life that has been
created by their unique experiences.
In any case, we are active creators of our own knowledge. To do this,
we must ask questions, explore and asses what we know.

Constructivism in classroom
Constructivism focus on student questions and interests, they build on
what students already know, they focus on interactive learning and are
student-centered.
Teachers have a dialogue with students to help them to construct their
own knowledge, they root in negotiation, and students work primarily in
groups.
Constructivism is crucial to understand as an educator because it
influences the way all of your students learn. Teachers and instructors
must understand that their students bring their own unique
experiences to the classroom every day.

Consequences
Learning is interactive: Activities are the experiences that allow
students to achieve learning outcomes. These may consist of readings,
lectures, group work, labs or projects to name a few.
Assessment includes students work: Assessments in education
measure student achievement. These may take the form traditional
assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of
learning activities such as group projects or presentations.

Students must apply their current understanding in new


situations: Related to this:
Assimilation refers to the process of taking new information and fitting
it into an existing schema, and on the other hand.
Accommodation refers to using newly acquired information to revise
and redevelop an existing schema.

Teacher’s role is interactive, rooted in negotiation: interacting with


others is vital to constructing knowledge. Group work, discussions,
conversations, and interactions are all important to creating
understanding. When we reflect on our past experiences, we can see
how our relationship with others is directly connected to the information
learned.

Learning is based on big ideas: In order to define the goals or


learning outcomes for the course, you will need to formulate a clear
idea of what students should know, understand, and/or be capable of
doing. In addition, it is helpful to ask yourself what the impact of the
course will be on students, and how you hope they will be different by
the end of it.

An activity or an aspect of constructivism that you can apply is the


cooperative learning.

Cooperative Learning:
Cooperative learning is based on group work, but it’s also so much
more than that.
The core element of cooperative learning is to showcase the positive
effects of interdependence while underlining the importance of
personal responsibility.
This happens naturally in cooperative learning since students work
with one another, but they all have a different task to accomplish or
concept to explain.

What Should You Know before Starting with Cooperative


Learning? SE DICEN ESTOS TITULOS
The key to cooperative learning is keeping students on task.
As the teacher, this is where you fit into the cooperative learning
experience.
You’re not directly “teaching” when cooperative learning occurs.
Instead, you’re ensuring groups of students stay on task.
You can also create a list of specific cooperative learning strategies
that you want to use with your students. That way, you constantly have
another strategy in the hopper for whenever your students wrap up one
activity and move onto the next.

How Do You Structure Cooperative Learning for the Classroom?

Like any learning strategy, it’s completely up to you how you want to
use cooperative learning in your classroom.
However, it’s important to note that most teachers don’t start a class
period with cooperative learning.
The reason is simple: Students haven’t focused on the class subject
yet, so they’re not going to be focused when they break into groups.
That’s why many of the teachers in our community start class periods
with bell work. After bell work, teachers go in a variety of different
directions depending on what they want to teach that day.
It’s also an excellent way to start an academic debate, in the event
groups disagree with one another. Students get to hear both sides of
an opinion, which is always good. Understanding an opposing
viewpoint helps keep students grounded in a debate and prevents
them from characterizing or generalizing people who think differently
from them.
Finally, remember that you’re in control of your classroom. The debate,
if it happens, ends when you say it ends.
Once you end it, give yourself enough time to recap the day. That’ll
help students keep everything they’ve learned and accomplished in
context.

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