According to social constructivist theory, children are not passively absorbing knowledge transmitted by teacher. They take an active role in constructing meaning. If we go from that proposition, then teachers should actively engage students with the phenomena they are learning. Teachers create learning environment where students ask questions, discuss with their classmates, refine their questions, make predictions and explain phenomena. Teacher should organize activities where students interact with concrete materials.
Teacher should help students use and apply their knowledge and in order to do that he/she must consider what the students already know. Teacher should enable students to plan and carry investigations analyze the data and make conclusions.
When students apply their knowledge to new situations they develop rich meaningful understanding, and form new connections with old ideas. Students also learn through multiple representations of ideas that integrate understanding. When teacher and classmates give feedback on the products or artifacts students made to represent their understanding ( models, reports, videos, computer programs ) students revise their artifacts to represent their new understanding.
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