Constructivism for Teaching

Using constructivism as a referent, teachers often use problem-solving as a learning strategy; where learning is defined as adaptations made to fit the world they experience. That is, to learn, a person's existing conceptions of the world must be unreliable, inviable. When one's conceptions of the world are inviable one tries to make sense out of the situation based on what is already known (i.e., prior knowledge is used to make sense of data perceived by the senses). Other persons are part of our experiential world, thus, others are important for meaning making.

Story telling to children

Story telling to children to some people is useless and a waste of time. But here are some reasons why story telling to children is important, essential and should be done by the parent (preferably), caregiver or carer, or nannies.
Story telling to children is one of the most important activities that a parent, a caregiver, carer, or nanny can do to a child. This activity develops the child's imagination. Story telling can create countless scenarios and possibilities. It can make the impossible, possible. Like for instance, in many of our story books; Animals can talk, people can fly, and being able to live in beautiful places. Though we are not teaching children to live in fantasy but rather help children develop some components in their brain to function physiologically. Imagination is a conscious activity requiring an amount of focus and concentration (esp. for young children). As parents or caregivers, we have the responsibility to strike the balance to separate fact from fiction. In your story telling time it is very important to show the realities of life.

Cognitivism

The cognitivist paradigm essentially argues that the “black box” of the mind should be opened and understood. The learner is viewed as an information processor (like a computer).

What is constructivism?

Constructivism is basically a theory -- based on observation and scientific study -- about how people learn. It says that people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences. When we encounter something new, we have to reconcile it with our previous ideas and experience, maybe changing what we believe, or maybe discarding the new information as irrelevant. In any case, we are active creators of our own knowledge. To do this, we must ask questions, explore, and assess what we know.

In the classroom, the constructivist view of learning can point towards a number of different teaching practices. In the most general sense, it usually means encouraging students to use active techniques (experiments, real-world problem solving) to create more knowledge and then to reflect on and talk about what they are doing and how their understanding is changing. The teacher makes sure she understands the students' preexisting conceptions, and guides the activity to address them and then build on them.

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LEARNING ENGLISH USING GAMES

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