Constructivist Teaching: Developing Constructivist Approaches to the Agricultural Education Class

摘要

As practicing teachers, we often don't take time to reflect on our teaching, As a result we often keep doing the same old thing year after year unless something goes wrong. For those who graduated from college more than 1.5 years ago, you may not be aware of the most current ideas and theories about teaching and learning, Well, at least I wasn't aware of them until I reentered graduate school last year. To see if your teaching mirrors the most current thinking about how people learn, take a moment toreflect on your teaching style. Write down a few notes about what you do while teaching. After this, turn your welding cap 180 degrees and write down a few words about what you think students do while learning in your class, After you have written abouteach, talk to a fellow teacher and ask her how she teaches and what her students do while learning, Don't hold back; tell her your ideas as well. Consider this as rein-vigorating your quest to look back (reflectively) on your own teaching approach, I did the same exercise not to long ago and found that, when teaching most effectively, I use many of the teaching approaches that focus on my students past experiences and individual understandings, what is currently called the "Constructivist approach" toteaching and learning.