RMSA Prayas++ Content Workshop

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� Philosophy about

learning

� Proposes that learners

need to build their own

understanding of new

ideas

� Prominent

constructivist

researchers are:

� Jean Piaget

� Howard Gardner

� 5-E Model is an instructional model based on

Constructivist approach to learning

� 5-E Model was originally proposed by BSCS

(Biological Science Curriculum Study) in the

late 1980’s.

� Is widely used in many countries around the

world for teaching (Not just for Science and

Math!)

EngageExplore

Explain

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� Focus student’s attention

� Stimulate thinking

� Generate interest

� Access prior knowledge

� Frame the learning

� Create Interest

� Motivate

� Ask for student’s input

� Hook content to student interest

� Connect to prior knowledge

� Create emotional connection

� Raise questions and encourage response

� Demonstration/Question

� Manipulative activity

� Analyze an illustration

� Interactive Reading

� Forced Associations

� Brainstorming Activity

� Connect past and present

� Frames the idea

Think of a concept in your content area

that you will teach this year:

a novel, math concept, event in history,

music genre, rules to a game, disease

prevention, classification, letter sounds,

computer skill, etc.

What can you do to engage the students?

� Discover new skills

� Experience, Think and Investigate

� Probe, Inquire, Collect Information

� Question, Test, Make Decisions

� Establish Relationships and Understanding

� Problem Solve

� Facilitate the learning

� Incorporate strategies for all learning styles

� Observe and listen to the students as they

interact

� Ask probing questions

� Redirect the students when needed

� Structure time

� Encourage cooperative learning

� Perform an Investigation

� Read to Collect Information

� Construct a Model

� Learn and practice a skill

� Manipulate data/information

� Solve a Problem

� Participate in Discussion

� Cooperative Learning Activities

Think of a concept in your content area

that you will teach this year:

a novel, math concept, event in history,

music genre, rules to a game, disease

prevention, classification, letter sounds,

computer skill, etc.

What strategies can you incorporate in your

lesson that will help students explore new

knowledge and skills?

� Analyze exploration

� Communicate New Understandings

� Understanding is clarified and modified

through a reflective activity

� Concepts, processes or skills become

plain, comprehensible and clear

� Define terms relative to the learning

� Encourage the students to explain concepts

and definitions in their own words

� Ask for clarification and justification

(evidence)

� Provide definitions, new words, and

explanations

� Use students’ previous experiences as basis

for explaining concepts

� Student Analysis & Explanation

� Demonstration with Student Talk

� Supporting Ideas with Evidence

� Structured Questioning, Reading and

Discussion

� Teacher Further Questions or Explains

connections

� Thinking Skill Activities: compare, classify,

summarize, error analysis, and interprets

� Expand and solidify student thinking

� Apply new learning to a new or similar

situation

� Provide reasonable conclusions

� Use new information in a real-world situation.

� Extend and explain concept being explored

� Communicate new understanding with formal

academic language

� Use previously learned information as a

vehicle to enhance additional learning

� Encourage the students to apply or extend

the concepts and skills in new situations

� Encourage students to use new terms and

definitions

� Act as a consultant

� Problem Solving within a new context

� Decision Making

� Experimental Inquiry

� Thinking Skill Activities: compare, classify,

apply, judge, conclude, synthesize and

extend

� Extended Reading

� Shows evidence of accomplishment

� Allows the teacher to assess student

performance and/or understandings of

concepts, skills, processes, an applications.

� Demonstrate understanding of new concept

by observation or open-ended response.

� Student demonstrates evidence of

understanding.

� Observe the students as they apply new concepts

and skills

� Assess students’ knowledge and/or skills

� Look for evidence that the students have changed

their thinking or behaviors

� Encourage students to assess their own learning

� Ask open-ended questions, such as:

� – Why do you think …. ?

� – What evidence do you have regarding …. ?

� – What do you know about …. ?

� – How would you explain …. ?

� Activities scored using a rubric

� Performance assessment

� Project Work

� Journal entries

� Peer Feedback Response

� Problem-based Learning Scenarios

� Evaluation can be done in all the other

phases!