Constructivist Teacher Education

Constructivist Teacher Education
Author: Virginia Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2005-08-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135715076

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Innovations in Teacher Education

Innovations in Teacher Education
Author: Clive Beck
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0791481840

This book offers a comprehensive, "social constructivist" approach to preservice education. Written in a clear, accessible style, it presents key principles of teacher education and concrete examples from eight successful programs in Australia, Canada, and the United States. It extends constructivism beyond Piaget and Vygotsky to more recent theorists such as Barthes and Derrida, indicating how such an approach can lead to engaging, effective education. Clive Beck and Clare Kosnik advocate an approach to teacher education that is highly original, linking integration, community components, and inquiry to a degree not commonly found in preservice programs, and they show in detail how to implement these elements.

Building Teachers

Building Teachers
Author: David Jerner Martin
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Constructivism (Education)
ISBN: 9781285087030

Designed from the ground up with a constructivist framework, BUILDING TEACHERS: A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH TO INTRODUCING EDUCATION, 2E, International Edition helps future teachers create their own understanding of education. As the authors address the key topics generally covered in an introductory book, they encourage readers to develop their own understandings by connecting their prior knowledge, experiences, and biases with new experiences to which they will be exposed during the course. Highlights of the new edition include stronger standards integration and expanded material on diversity and technology. By interacting with the materials presented, rather than merely memorizing the book's content, readers learn what teaching is all about in an exploratory, inquiring, constructivist-based manner. In turn, they can help the children in their classrooms learn meaningfully.

The Comprehensive Handbook of Constructivist Teaching

The Comprehensive Handbook of Constructivist Teaching
Author: James Pelech
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607523760

While many people talk about the Constructivist philosophy, there has not been a publication that provides a detailed description of what a Constructivist classroom sounds like and looks like. This book fills that void by examining the philosophy, translating it into teaching strategies, and providing over forty examples. These examples come from the elementary level up to and including the collegiate level, and include all content areas. These examples show how the Constructivist educator uses the linguistic mode, the visual mode, and the kinesthetic mode to create a class environment in which the Constructivist philosophy flourishes. Examples of student work are provided; the book also includes chapters on note-taking, Problem-Based Learning (PBL), action research, and other Constructivist resources. Written in user-friendly form, this book presents a concrete and step by step approach for translating the Constructivist philosophy into classroom practice. This book is intended for every Constructivist researcher, practitioner, and teacher-educator. The researcher and teacher-educator will benefit from topics such as the history of Constructivist thought, the principles of Constructivism and action research. This book is more than a list of recipes, and this will be beneficial to the practitioner. Starting with the principles of Constructivism, and bridging to four basic teaching strategies, the practitioner is guided on how to use different learning modes and “meta-strategies” to create a true Constructivist practice. An educator’s life is made up of one’s philosophy, teaching principles, daily strategies, resources, and research tools. This book provides an in-depth look, from the Constructivist perspective, at each one of these components. In every sense of the word, this book is truly “comprehensive.”

Education Is Upside-Down

Education Is Upside-Down
Author: Eric Kalenze
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2014-10-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475809956

Education Is Upside Down cuts through adjustments being made at technical levels of educational practice and accountability, challenging ideals and philosophies that have powered American Education for most of the last century. This book explains how and why long-standing approaches generate flawed instructional practices, flawed systemic reform efforts, and a fundamental misalignment between the educational institution and the society it is missioned to serve. Education Is Upside Down urges readers wishing to improve American Education to more carefully consider the institution’s central mission, challenge long-accepted truths of practice, and question current reform efforts and actions. In full, Education Is Upside Down resists the practitioner-vs.-reformer blame game, seeking ultimately to carefully untangle—not tighten by yanking on any single strand—the long-complicated knot of American Education.

In Search of Understanding

In Search of Understanding
Author: Jacqueline G. Brooks
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1999-07-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416602739

The activities that transpire within the classroom either help or hinder students' learning. Any meaningful discussion of educational renewal, therefore, must focus explicitly and directly on the classroom, and on the teaching and learning that occur within it. This book presents a case for the development of classrooms in which students are encouraged to construct deep understandings of important concepts. Jacqueline Grennon Brooks and Martin Brooks present a new set of images for educational settings, images that emerge from student engagement, interaction, reflection, and construction. They have considerable experience in creating constructivist educational settings and conducting research on those settings. Authentic examples are provided throughout the book, as are suggestions for administrators, teachers, and policymakers. For the new edition of their popular book, the authors have written an introduction that places their work in today's educational renewal setting. Today, they urge, the case for constructivist classrooms is much stronger and the need more critical. Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Constructivist Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

Constructivist Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners
Author: Sharon Adelman Reyes
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452297053

This book provides guidelines for using constructivist teaching methods with English language learners and includes classroom examples, grade-level connections, and strategies that promote educational equity.

Constructivist Methods for the Secondary Classroom

Constructivist Methods for the Secondary Classroom
Author: Ina Claire Gabler
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Constructivism (Education)
ISBN: 9780205360574

This comprehensive, yet concise, book provides a practical pre-service training program across all secondary subjects by grounding a constructivist approach in seven discrete instructional areas. This groundbreaking book is the only teacher education text with components that shift the focus from a teacher-centered to a student-centered context-while infusing a key component of successful active student learning. Engaged Minds provides strategies with specific examples for moving through lower levels of concrete information and applications to the higher, more abstract, levels of synthesis and evaluation. This dynamic book takes a roll-up-your-sleeves approach-yet constructivist ideology permeates this rigorous, accessible and imaginative training program. For teachers of secondary education.

Developing Constructivist Early Childhood Curriculum

Developing Constructivist Early Childhood Curriculum
Author: Rheta DeVries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807741214

Discusses how children can benefit from certain kinds of play during early childhood education, allowing them to explore their surroundings while still being conventially educated in the classroom.