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Have you in your own education, your children’s education, or in a school you’ve taught at experienced a constructivist approach to education? If so, describe some of the impact (positive or negative) you experienced/witnessed.
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I have not, nor have my children been exposed to a constructive approach to education.
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<div>A mix of all three, with a more of a focus on constructivist in 9 and 10 and mastery in 11 and 12.</div>
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Positives are agency and increased motivation for children. Negatives are that children are now much less interested in anything they did not have agency in.
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Unfortunately, some of the parents of students have this approach. So (real life example), a student was singing, twerking across my classroom, and then jumping off a chair. The parent’s response was to ask if this was a free period and explain that her child was just full of energy instead of acknowledging that this a black and white situation where her child was directly disobeying and disrupting a testing environment. I have seen this approach continuously on the rise.
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Yes, it helps you understand the bigger picture because you have to be able to create. In order to create you have to know the information.