Constructivist approach

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What is the constructivist approach?
Individuals create understanding by linking new knowledge and information to previous experiences.
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Name the 2 constructivist theorists.
Lev Vygotsky
Jerome Bruner
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What did Lev Vygotsky believe?
That children are active learners, adult interaction with children is significant because children learn from watching others.
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What was Vygotsky's development?
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD).
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What is the ZPD?
How a child's cognition develops through adult interaction and the difference between children's current abilities and potential when given adult encouragement.
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What did Jerome Bruner believe?
That children could learn anything if the information was simplified and presented in an accessible way and that children learn best when they discover things for themselves.
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What is Bruner's spiral curriculum?
An effective way that children can learn something at a simplistic level and then cover it in more depth over time.
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What are the 6 pedagogical approaches and applications?
Enquiry-based
Modelling
Flipped
Commentary
Sustained
Reflection
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What is inquiry-based learning?
The teacher plans activities to provoke curiosity and interaction between peers.
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What is modelling learning?
The teacher models how to complete a task with the students observing before they can have a go.
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What is flipped Learning?
The teacher provides material that students can access independently then observes and scaffolds activities during group learning.
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What is commentary learning?
The teacher demonstrates thinking skills, such as problem-solving.
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What is sustained shared thinking?
The teacher and student share a genuine interest in an activity, conversation or discovery.
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What is reflection learning?
The teacher talks about what went well and encourages the student to develop their own thinking.
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Jerome Bruner

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