A Constructivist Approach to the Classroom

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This paper explains the core idea of constructivism, looks at what is required to implement a constructivist classroom, and outlines a number of practices that can facilitate teachers' understanding of constructivism and that can contribute to the creation of a learning environment in the classroom. The paper also includes a discussion of constructivist teaching from the perspective of the author and describes additional aspects of learning that he believe constructivism should consider as a requirement for a learning environment.

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"Developing a classroom atmosphere which encourages all students to take on the desire to become lifelong learners is a challenging task. The task is even more daunting when the context of the assignment takes place within the walls of a 7th grade social studies classroom. Middle school students are progressively less interested in social history, and increasingly more interested in what the latest top 40 music group did on their last concert tour. None the less, by using a constructivist approach to the classroom, the students were engaged in the subject matter, and moved in the direction of developing the target attitude - that of being personally interested in the education process."

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