CONSTRUCTIVISM

Paradigm that positions the learner at the core of learning process

Cognitive and social interactions

Designed for students to integrate the classroom more effectively

Promotes social and communication skills

Develop higher thinking, stimulating critical thinking and clarification of ideas

Increase social interaction, through class discussion collaborative learning

Foster problem solving

Motivate student's learning

Pursue personal interests and purposes

Build on student's prior knowledge and experiences

Develop advanced skills such as critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, and creation

Promotes diverse viewpoints

Encourage students to reflect, evaluate their work, and identity intermediary skills to acquire based on their needs

Knowledge are to be consistently challenged and experimented on

Students learn through experience

Improvement of the reasoning process is a key function of education

Private talk: negative, declines with age, shows the inability to take the perspective of another and is a sign of cognitive immaturity

Teacher acts as facilitator, guide and listen for the student's current conceptions, ideas and thinking

Peers are not necessary but can stimulate thinking, raise questions

Students are active thinker, explainer, interpreter and questioner

Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

What needs to be done to take the learner where they to be

Teacher being a model, guide, co-participant, co-construct different interpretation of knowledge, listen to socially constructed conceptions, tool provider

Peers act as an ordinary part of process of knowledge construction

Students are active thinker, explainer, interpreter, questioner and active in social participants

Private talk: positive, increases at younger ages and gradually loss its audible quality, for the purpose of self- regulation

Respect and value diversity students's background and cultures

Students are active learners

Inquiry Teaching & Learning applies to my future classroom

Considering our current dynamic and multicultural society

Understand students's learning needs

Facilitator or supporter in teaching and learning

Foster critical thinking and creates active and motivated learners

Create environments in which students can construct their own understandings

Case studies

Presentations

Documentaries

Brainstorming

Constructing (in class workshops & activities)

Peer teaching & tutoring

Peer evaluations

Role plays

Jigsaw

Peer feedbacks and reviews

E-learning

Padlet

Powerpoint, microsoft word

Kahoot gamification

Online discussion and forums

VUCollaborate

Moodle

Online quizzes