1. Language, Literature, Social Sciences Secondary
Constructivism

2. Important People
John Dewey
Lev Vygotsky
Jerome Bruner
Jean Piaget

3. Key Constructivism Points
Knowledge is assimilated as students learn new information and develop new experiences
Learning is a social process
Experience and knowledge should build upon each other
The learner constructs knowledge into a model he/she understands and utilizes it to make sense of their environment

4. Constructivism-Teaching Implications
Actively engage students using educational technologies to encourage assimilation and accommodation of knowledge to a diverse population of learners
Utilize the Socratic method to encourage the exchange of ideas and facilitate understanding
Focus on kinesthetic and active learning
Utilize integrated curriculum, spiral curriculum, and scaffolding

5. Constructivism-Student Implications
Students attain knowledge through:
Adaptation
Assimilation
Accommodation
Technology is a driving force behind a student based learning environment
Students are active and participatory learners
Learning is significantly influenced through social development
Social Cognition
Use higher level thinking skills to solve problems
Socratic Method

6. Personal Teaching Evaluation
Constructivism submits that the key to education is to encourage teachers to act as a gateway to knowledge, anchor students to this knowledge, and then allow students to develop this knowledge in a way that conforms with their experiences. In this way, principles and historical precedents can be passed on to a new generation. Students can interpret this data and act upon their own free accord. I agree with this sense of progressive education, in which the student is integrated with society. However, it is important to maintain the distinction between assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation into society is not the goal of education; the goal is for society to accommodate itself to a new age of thinkers. Constructivism, along with other teaching methods, can accomplish this accommodation by emphasizing a student-based curriculum.

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Constructivism Quiz

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9. C) Concrete Operational
1) In which of the following of Piaget’s four cognitive stages would a child be able to adopt alternative viewpoints but not have yet developed the transition to abstract thinking?
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A) Sensorimotor
B) Preoperational
C) Concrete Operational
D) Formal Operational

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12. A) Jean Piaget B) Jerome Bruner C) Lev Vygotsky D) John Dewey
2) Which of the following influential Constructivists believed that social development and culture significantly influenced learning, otherwise known as social cognition?
A) Jean Piaget
B) Jerome Bruner
C) Lev Vygotsky
D) John Dewey

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14. 3) Which of the following best characterizes progressive education?
A) Emphasis on learning resources, not textbooks
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B) Development of social skills
C) Learning tailored to individual goals
D) All of the above

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16. 4) True or false. A scaffold is a temporary source of knowledge from which students assimilate this knowledge and build their own.
True
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