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Instructional Strategies: Constructivist Teaching

Observe actual classes using the following constructivist teaching and learning practices.

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Constructivist Teaching Strategies Observed Other Comments
Observed
1. Active learning strategies ✓
2. Meaningful learning activities ✓
3. Effective questioning strategies ✓
4. Real life and concrete examples ✓
5. Cooperative learning activities ✓
6. Probelm- solving activities ✓
7. Active investigation ✓
8. Integrative learning activities ✓
9. Practice and feedback activities ✓
10. Effective motivation techniques ✓
11. Students providing generalizations ✓
12. Positive classroom atmosphere ✓
13. Interesting lessons and activities ✓
14. Students take active role in learning ✓
15. Experiential learning activities ✓
16. Varied learning activities ✓
17. Respecting students' views ✓
18. Positive learning environment ✓
19. Linking ideas and concepts with real- ✓
life experiences
20. Modelling positive behavior ✓
21. Available learning materials ✓
22. Respecting learning styles ✓
23. Differentiated learning strategies ✓

Provide a narrative observation on how teachers are using constructivist teaching and learning
in their class.

Subject: English 9
Topic: Voice of the Verb (Active and Passive Voices)

Observation: One of the instructional materials necessary in the execution of the K-12
curriculum is the constructivist teaching style. This is a well-known technique of looking at and
understanding how individuals learn. This theory of knowledge that I observed in the class has
connections to teaching and learning because it includes a conception of the knower, a
conception of the known, and a conception of the knower-known interaction.

Subject: English 9

Topic: Strategies for Good Listening

Observation: Constructivist teaching is one of the instructional modalities required to

implement the K–12 Curriculum. This is a well-known method for observing and comprehending
how people learn. Since it encompasses notions of the knower, the known, and the relationship
between the knower and the known, the theory of knowledge that I see in the classroom has
relevance to teaching and learning.

Processing

Examine carefully the data you have gathered. Answer the following questions.

1. Does the teacher employ constructivist teaching-learning approaches?

Answer: Yes, Ma’am Sab Nahilat employs constructivist teaching-learning approaches which is
required in the implementation of the K-12 curriculum.

2. How do students respond to constructivist activities?

Answer: Constructivist activities believe that learners learn new ideas about the natural world as
a result of what they observed, experienced, and have been told, by integrating them into
existing knowledge structures. It also believes that the learners are not passive recipients of
knowledge but rather than they are active constructors of knowledge and reconstructors of their
understanding.

3. How did constructivist teaching improve the teaching and learning practices in the school?

Answer: According to the constructivist viewpoint, learning is not a function of stimulus and
reaction. It necessitates self-control as well as the abstraction and introspection necessary to
construct mental frameworks.

4. What things could be done to encourage the teachers to use constructivist teaching-learning
approaches?

Answer: It gives a new paradigm at how learners address or solve problems and build up models
of the learners' conceptual structures. It requires self-regulation and the building of conceptual
structures through reflection and abstraction.

Reflection

Write your reflection by completing the following statements.

I realized that one of the instructional materials necessary in the execution of the K-12
curriculum is the constructivist teaching style. This is a well-known technique of looking at and
understanding how individuals learn. This theory of knowledge has connections to teaching and
learning because it includes a conception of the knower, a conception of the known, and a
conception of the knower-known interaction.

I believe it is essential that constructivism holds that humans make their meaning from their
experiences to make sense of the world around them. Learners bring mental models to every
learning environment. It also holds that new ideas about the natural world are acquired by
students through assimilation into preexisting knowledge structures as a result of their
observations, experiences, and education. Additionally, it holds that students are not only passive
recipients of knowledge but rather active creators of knowledge and reconstructors of their
ideas.

From now on, I am determined to use the same way as constructivist teaching style in order for
me to make an effective way to teach.