Constructivism

Before completing the constructivism lesson, I was familiar with constructivism. I heard about it in my Child Development class. It intrigued me because it was a very different approach. However, it was not until now that I realized several of my teachers used the constructivist approach. My history teacher used it often. In class, she asked us about our own experiences and related it to the history lesson. She used many online videos, books, and lectures as teaching sources. She was very interactive. We were allowed to work in groups. At first, it was very aggravating to my classmates and me. We were so used to the traditional classroom approach. The constructivist approach required us to do more work than expected. However, when we discovered the answers for ourselves, it was very rewarding to us. In fact, we grew to love the class and it made us better students. I will definitely be using constructivism in my classroom.