In education, we can find many theories and psychological
currents that help teachers to teach in a better way. Those theories can help
to understand how students are and how they behave. Also, it teaches to make
our students learn. Now, talking about theories, constructivism has influenced
the way of teaching because It is not focus on learning from books but also
learning from the environment. It is important to mention that Ernst Von Glasersfeld
was the creator of this, and Jean Piaget with Lev Vygotsky were the ones who
continued contributing in in the theory.
Constructivism is a psychological theory applied in
education. It is based on how students learn new things; also, it is based on
how students build their own learning. In short words, students learn by
themselves. Students construct their own understanding by experiences they have
and previous knowledge. Students relate new knowledge with old ones. For
example, a student learn to make science experiments on YouTube, but he does
not practice. When he goes to the classroom, he does not find too much
difficult to make the experiment as other because of the previous knowledge he
has.
Characteristics
To understand more constructivism, let us see some traits.
First, learning process is meaningful. It comes from the
result of the process of constructing meanings. Students can learn something
they want and something that is going to be useful in their lives. Second, the
curriculum is open and changeable. It means that teachers can break the
monotony and make different plans and methods to teach, and they can learn by
differentness ones It is no going to be the same of traditional teaching, for
example, reading lectures, going to school and sitting down, and so on. Third,
the goal of constructivism is to teach students to solve different problems in
life, so learning is active. Fourth, students are the center of learning
process because the teachers do not talk too much. However, they are just facilitators.
Different roles
In constructivism,
teachers and students play different roles. In the case of the teachers, they
are not the protagonists in the classroom, but they are facilitators and guides
for students. In the case of students. They are the protagonists, active
learners, and the people in chart on their own learning.
In conclusion, constructivism is a good
option to apply the classes, and it has many advantages because students
can learn by their own and think critically to solve real situations.
Some ideas were taken from:
https://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/
http://www.alicechristie.org/edtech/learning/Constructivism%20.pdf
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