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Constructivist Pedagogy

Teaching-learning approach in Social Science needs to be


revitalized towards helping the learner to acquire knowledge and
skills in an interactive environment. Constructivism sees learning
as a dynamic and social process in which the prior understanding
and the social setting of students are taken into account.

8 factors
that are essential in Constructivist's Pedagogy
AUTHENTIC AND REAL-WORLD
ENVIRONMENTS ARE NECESSARY
FOR LEARNING TO TAKE PLACE
SOCIAL NEGOTAITION AND
MEDIATION SHOULD BE TAKEN INTO
ACCOUNT IN ANY FORM OF LEARNING
CONTENT AND SKILLS ARE MADE
SIGNIFICANT TO THE LEARNERS
LEARNER’S PRIOR KNOWLEDGE IS
FUNDAMENTAL IN THE ACQUISITION
OF CONTENT AND SKILLS
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT SHOULD BE
DONE TO INFORM FUTURE LEARNING
EXPERIENCES CONSTRUCTIVISM ENCOURAGE
LEARNERS TO BECOME SELF-
REGULATED, SELF-MEDIATED, AND
SELF-AWARE
TEACHERS SHOULD ACT AS GUIDES
AND FACILITATORS OF LEARNING
TEACHERS MUST EMPLOY MULTIPLE
PERSPECTIVES AND REPRESENTATIONS

Modeling

Role of
Coaching
Scaffolding

Teachers Facilitator

EX Constructivism requires that teachers become facilitators


of knowledge not conduits. The teacher’s role is to
create experiences within which students will learn and
then guide the students through those experiences; is a
form of scaffolding’ (Doolittle and Hicks 2001)

Examples of
Constructivist Pedagogy

Cooperative Learning Hands-on Activities


EXPLANATION: It allows students
of upper primary level for
Films EXPLANATION: These
encourage students to
development to become active in manipulate their environments
social collaborative activities. EXPLANATION: These
provide visual context or a particular learning tool.
Such activities require that Teachers can use a checklist
students work primarily in and thus bring
another sense into the and observation to assess
groups. The groups do not have student success with the
to be of any certain size, large learning experience.
particular material.
or small.

In a nutshell.... it can be concluded that the constructivist approach


allows a different perspective on education, we see
also different measurement and evaluation activities.

That is why... in the constructivist approach, in place of


product-oriented learning, focusing on the
process of learning by an exhibition, project
work, portfolio, scoring key diagnostic tree,
checklists, performance evaluation, self-
assessment, alternative assessment tools such
as peer reviews should be used.

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