Sayfalar

13 Nisan 2015 Pazartesi

Constructivism from my point of view

   Constructivism in teaching certainly has a lot of advantages. I think it is a better idea to lead students to sources and help them build their own knowledge instead of normal lecturing. Because this method will eventually diminish the possible questions like "Why am I learning this?, "How it is going to be useful for me in the future?" and create a self awareness on students. As the students going to be creators of their own knowledge this will led them to a better understanding of subjects. Rather than just taking readily made bits of information from the teacher, students will do research, they first take subjects as a whole and after their research they will reach to the necessary point and in that time period they will learn lots of different thing consciously or unconsciously. Additionally students will be saved from "teacher talk" which is very boring for most of the new generation learners. Inevitably there is some drawbacks of this method. First, this is almost completely a student based system. For lesson to work weed need to be sure that each student come to class as ready. What happens in they not? Because lesson will be dependent the things they brought to class, it might stuck at some point. Also this makes lesson planning much harder because we as teacher need to build the new knowledge upon the existing knowledge of the students. If we have a very high population in the class this will also become impossible. Moreover choosing this method will require us to leave from standardised testing schema and grade entered goals and rewards as well as the comparison of students. Lastly according to all those reasons constructivist education for me is very useful and not completely but mainly I will try to integrate it o me teaching process.