Does constructivist pedagogy promote student learning?
Moreover, constructivist teaching practices are becoming more prevalent in teacher education programs, while demonstrating significant success in promoting student learning. (Shah, 2019) In addition, constructivist pedagogy in the classroom facilitates a good deal of students’ engagement (Hunter, 2015; Zajda, 2018a; Shah, 2019; Zaphir, 2019 ).
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Effective and Engaging Teachers
What makes a great pedagogue in the classroom today.
This can be summarised by the following 5 main characteristics: teacher’s self-efficacy, lesson structure, awareness of cultural diversity, positive motivational atmosphere, and mastery skills.
These are described below: 1.
1) Effective teachers have a sense of self-efficacy(the belief and confid.
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Effective Teachers and Teachers’ Knowledge
McInerney and McInerney (2018) has defined an effective school as ‘one that promotes the progress of its students in a broad range of intellectual, social and emotional outcomes, taking into account socio-economic status, family background and prior learning’ (McInerney & McInerney, 2018).
Slavin (2020) summarises good and effective pedagogy in ter.
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Individual Differences and Learning Styles
Learners from diverse cultures, with different levels of knowledge and skills and at different stages of cognitive development, are likely to exhibit different ways of learning.
Yet, in a traditional classroom there is a tendency to adopt a singular, unifying and one-dimensional approach to the learning/teaching process.
There is also a tendency to.
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Is constructivism a theoretical foundation for the use of Technology in social studies?
Constructivism as a theoretical foundation for the use of technology in social studies.
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Should educators be more vigilant about constructivism?
On the other hand, the prevalence of constructivist teaching practices suggests that educators need to become much more vigilant both about what we mean by constructivism and how we apply constructivist teaching.
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Why is constructivism important?
Constructivism has been a very powerful model for explaining how knowledge is produced in the world as well as how students learn.
Moreover, constructivist teaching practices are becoming more prevalent in teacher education programs, while demonstrating significant success in pro- moting student learning.
