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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 heard about this until recently.
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I believe a constructivist approach is a great opportunity for many students to learn hands on. I had the opportunity to work in a Montessori School where I met many students that learned through this approach. I also met a few students that did not benefit from this approach. I believe it did not work for them because they needed a structure, directions, a normal classroom setting, etc.
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I have not experienced this.
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I have little to no experience with constructivism in education. The Christian school system that I have been in has stayed with traditional educational processes.
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I feel like I have seen it from a teacher’s perspective when a student joins a general classroom from being in a homeschool setting. Many of the students have been given the homeschool approach but one in which the education is driven from the need of the student. The choices given to the student by some homeschool families, but not of course by all, allows the student to choose their approach to learning. I had a student that wanted to present some knowledge he had learned in a science topic from doing what he wanted to do but failed to pass the science test. He did spend a lot of glorious time working on something that looked beautiful (poster board) on an endangered animal, but failed to learn the broader facts about science and the topic at hand.