Practice What You Preach: Engaging Your Students as They Learn Constructivist Theory Erin Horan ehoran@uga.edu; Deanna Cozart Educational Psychology; Educational Theory and Practice Center for Teaching and Learning
Intros please! Name, affiliation, anything else Favorite thing you’ve learned this semester so far
Group Activity 4 different groups Create a lesson using the criteria given to you Can’t decide? Scientific Method
Group Activity
Group Activity Some things to consider: SLO Items? Student info/knowledge?
Group 1(s) Criteria: Materials for students to work with No time limit No guidance from teacher Lesson Type: ________________________
Group 2(s) Criteria: Gives students a real world issue to solve to learn the topic You, as the teacher, cannot help students Lesson Type: ________________________
Group 3(s) Criteria: Gives students a real world issue to solve to learn the topic You will act as a guide as necessary to the students Lesson Type: ________________________
Group 4(s) Criteria: Students participate in discussion in groups (2 or more) Equal participation among students Lesson Type: ________________________
My SLO? Learn different lesson plans for Constructivism handout Modified jigsaw
Constructivism Constructivism- active role of the learner in building understanding and making sense of information
Constructivism First wave constructivism- who was it? Radical constructivism
Constructivism Second wave constructivism- ? Cultural tools, Social interaction
Constructivist Methods
My Current SoTL project SoTL; Teaching as Research Goal: Understand students’ views of constructivism Compared my lesson to a ”control” lecture Student expectations about participating (icebreaker) General feedback- they loved it!
Practice What You Preach: Engaging Your Students as They Learn Constructivist Theory Erin Horan; Deanna Cozart Educational Psychology; Educational Theory and Practice Center for Teaching and Learning University of Georgia