1. By: Monique B.

2.  What is Constructivism?
 Who is involved in the theory?
 How can the theory be seen in the classroom?
 How to use Constructivism in the classroom

3.  A type of learning theory where the learner actively construct creates
their own subjective representations of objective reality.
 This theory focuses on learning through experience.
 Constructivism began in the time of Progressive Education.
 Constructivist educators will assess their students' learning and plan
new learning experiences.

4.  Each individual is an active creator of their own knowledge.
 It’s often misconstrued as a learning theory that compels
students to "reinvent the wheel."
 Students attempt to understand how the wheel functions by
applying their existing knowledge and real-world experience.

5.  Jean Piaget- was a Swiss professor of psychology and sociology
 Jerome Bruner-published documents about that examined theories
of cognitive development for curriculum innovation.
 Lev Vygotsky- was a scholar that proposed a theory of cognitive
development that focused in the underlying process rather than the
stage of development
 John Dewey- was an American philosopher and educator
 All of these individuals were influential in the evolution of this
learning theory .

6.  Jean Piaget had a big influence on constructivism
 Made observations that children construct new knowledge as they
move through different cognitive stages.
 There are four cognitive stages:
- Sensorimotor: learn through sensory and motor activities
- Peroperational : begin to use symbols ,images, and pretend play
- Concrete operational: begin to think logically, and learn facts
- Formal operational: abstract thinking and reasoning develops

7.  Teachers encourage students to constantly assess how the activity is
helping them gain understanding by questioning themselves and
their strategies.
 Teachers help students to construct knowledge rather than to
reproduce a series of facts.
 Students become "expert learners," because their knowledge of
tools continue to broaden tool, they learn to learn.
 Guided by the teacher, students construct their knowledge actively
rather than just mechanically ingesting knowledge from the teacher
or the textbook.

8.  Students will continuously reflect on their experiences.
 They begin to develop increasingly strong abilities to integrate
new information.
 One of the teacher's main roles becomes to encourage this
learning and reflection process.
 Problem-solving and inquiry-based learning activities are seen in
the construcitvism classroom .
 This allows students to formulate and test their ideas in a
collaborative learning environment.
 The student becomes an active participant in the learning
process versus a passive recipient of information.

9.  In my classroom I would apply this learning theory by having
activities that promotes both group collaboration and individual
creativity.
 Each activity will be followed by a reflection statement to see what
the student gained from the information.
 Problem-solving tasks would be utilized to really get the “wheels”
turning in the child’s mind.

10.  The children would also participate in more hands-on tasks versus
always having just traditional lectures.
 I think also having very sensory components to be used can assist
with the child gathering the information.
 I would use teaching ideas such as whole language, fuzzy math, and
invented spelling.
 I would make sure when implementing this learning theory to have
the environment structured because having activities that emphasis
on students' self-esteem versus self-discipline can lead to
disciplinary concerns if not implemented properly

11.  http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2cl
ass/constructivism/lp_elem1.html
 http://www.illinoisloop.org/whatswrong.html
 http://faculty.frostburg.edu/mbradley/psyog
raphy/piaget.jpg (Image)
 Clip art images within powerpoint