Reflections on the Efficacy of a Constructivist Approach to Teaching and Learning in a First-Year Bachelor of Environmental Management Topic

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gertrude Szili ◽  
Jonathan Sobels
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Approach To Teaching

Learning Strategies Instruction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Grosser
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Transfer Of Learning ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Strategies Instruction

Learning strategies comprise the application of overt and covert metacognitive, cognitive, affective/motivational, social, and behavioral/environmental/management learning tools to enhance the successfulness of surface and deep learning, as well as transfer of learning. The most effective learning strategies for the acquisition and manipulation of information combine the limited use of a behavioristic, teacher-directed transmission approach to teaching with a powerful cognitive and constructivist approach where students take control of their own learning and construct meaning of information.

AN APPROACH TO TEACHING MEDICAL CHEMISTRY THAT HIGHLIGHTS INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF SCIENCE

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aris Kaksis ◽  
◽  
Agnese Brangule ◽  
Mihails Halitovs ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
Physics Students ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
Separate System ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Medical Chemistry ◽  
The University ◽  
First Year Medical Students

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with questions concerning energies and work of a system. It is one of the key topics for understanding processes in the universe as well as any separate system like a gas mixture or a single cell in a biological system. Thermodynamics is included in the university curriculum for engineering, chemistry and physics students as well as medical student curriculum. This paper outlines the problems faced by first year medical students learning thermodynamics at Riga Stradinš University. We describe a medically relevant context based approach to teaching that demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of medical chemistry, molecular biology and biochemistry. Our method provides a model in which disciplinary barriers are diminished and increased effectiveness of teaching is achieved. Key words: interdisciplinary teaching, medical chemistry, thermodynamics, teaching and learning thermodynamics.

Constructivist Teaching and Learning in a Web-Based Environment

2011 ◽  
pp. 418-423
Author(s):  
Valerie N. Morphew
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Constructivist Teaching ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Traditional Setting

Web-based teaching and learning is on the rise in education and industry, challenging teachers and trainers to deliver instruction in new ways with the same or better results. To maximize the potential of Web-based delivery, instructors can avail themselves of the rich body of research that supports constructivist teaching and learning in the traditional setting. Applying the constructivist approach to Web-based teaching and learning can help instructors establish learning environments and practices that encourage growth and development in their students. Constructivist teaching and learning recognizes both teacher and student as important and contributing members in a teaching-learning relationship. Other students in the learning environment also hold such qualities. The constructivist approach acknowledges that teacher and student, alike, bring prior knowledge and experiences with them into the learning environment. By capitalizing on familiar concepts and experiences, the student is able to connect new knowledge with prior and construct new meaning. This approach to teaching and learning differs markedly from the long-held notion that students are empty vessels (tabula rasa) waiting to be filled by a knowledgeable teacher. Although constructivism is widely accepted in theory, the teaching practices of many instructors do not support this approach.

scholarly journals The effect of Constructivism on Students’ Performance in Solving Mathematical Problems under Trigonometry

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Richmond Kwame Gyan ◽  
Frank Ayiku ◽  
Evans Atteh ◽  
Alfred Kofi Adams
Keyword(s):  
Word Problems ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Constructivist Teaching ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Meaningful Activity ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Research Questions

This paper is an action research which involves a sample of thirty five (35) second year students of Akontombra Senior High School comprising 24 males and 11 females. The study was aimed at using the constructivist approach to enhance students’ competence in solving word problems under trigonometry. Prior to the study, it was observed that the students were not able to understand and solve word problems under trigonometry. The constructivist approach of teaching and learning was employed as the intervention strategy and series of activities was carried out. The pre – test and post – test scores obtained by the students were analyzed quantitatively based on the research questions of the study. Comparatively, the results obtained from the pre – test and post – test showed a significant improvement on the students’ ability to solve word problems under trigonometry. It was then inferred from the results that the constructivist teaching and learning methodology employed during the intervention phases enhanced the academic achievements of the students. The constructivist approach to teaching encouraged students to participate in the process and environment of teaching and learning and to promote mathematics as a creative and meaningful activity that involves interpretation, effort and exploration.

Constructivism in Online Distance Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 701-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathaleen Reid-Martinez ◽  
Linda D. Grooms ◽  
Mihai C. Bocarnea
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Online Distance Education ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Online Distance ◽  
Military Communities

The past two decades have ushered in a very pronounced gravitation toward a constructivist approach to teaching and learning in all realms of society and most particularly in the online distance education environment. Augmenting communication in and among those in the academic, business, and military communities, the exponential advancement of science and technology has availed vast amounts of information to virtually millions of people around the globe. In conjunction with this knowledge explosion has been a growing concern for the democratization of the learning process, with constructivism driving much of the educational agenda. This article examines the resurgence of this approach to teaching and learning, its convergence with rapidly changing technological advances, and how it forecasts future trends in online pedagogy.

Constructivism in 21st Century Online Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 730-743
Author(s):  
Kathaleen Reid-Martinez ◽  
Linda D. Grooms
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Online Pedagogy ◽  
Online Distance Education ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Online Distance ◽  
Military Communities

Augmenting communication in and among those in the academic, business, and military communities, the exponential advancement of science and technology has availed vast amounts of information to virtually millions of people around the globe. In conjunction with this knowledge explosion has been a growing concern for the democratization of the learning process, with constructivism driving much of the educational agenda, most particularly in areas such as online distance education. This chapter examines the resurgence of the constructivist approach to teaching and learning, its convergence with rapidly changing technological advances, and its relationship to future trends in online pedagogy and andragogy.

scholarly journals An Evolving Teaching Methodology: An Integrated Approach To Teaching Multi-Disciplinary Classes

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Craig Baird ◽  
Kerry Pedigo
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Business School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
First Year ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Central Case ◽  
Approach To Teaching

This paper discusses an approach to teaching and learning in multi-disciplinary university settings using case study based scenarios presented using films as a key teaching methodology. The production of four films (The Video store, Perception Airlines, Tranquil Whispers, and Middleton) over an eight year period was an iterative process through which the use of film-based case study scenarios was refined as a teaching tool to integrate student learning across multiple disciplines in a business school. Each of the four films was designed to enhance first year university students understanding of theories and practices used in a range of discipline areas that underpin the operations of a commercial business undertaking. The final film mainly discussed here depicts a central case study scenario, entitled Middleton featuring a cast of teaching and academic staff from the Curtin Business School (CBS) in Perth, Western Australia and Curtin Sarawak, Malaysia(Curtin University of Technology). It was produced as a core teaching approach for exploring themes as part of the delivery of several first year units within the CBS, delivered over twelve campuses in Western Australia and South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka). Students in their first year of a commerce degree study compulsory business units that are disparate in their content and delivery. This diversity can cause some students to have difficulty with defining meaningful cohesiveness between units in their first year of study. Middleton sought to integrate the first year subjects into a film depicting a central case study of an international business operation.

scholarly journals Would Jesus do in a Distance Learning Mode of Teaching?

Kairos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Maja Seguin
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Potential Approach ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Virtual Setting

Several pedagogical considerations come with the transition from traditional to virtual teaching, and it is necessary to provide teachers with a potential approach to teaching and learning. This article gives an overview of the teaching methods Jesus used with a focus on parables, highlights the modern constructivist approach to teaching, and singles out characteristics of constructivism in Jesus’ teaching model. Combined, this presents a basis for practical advice in today’s context of online teaching, respectively in a virtual setting. The article highlights characteristics of Jesus as a teacher which present-day teachers can apply to their contexts and finishes with suggestions for further research.

Online Learning Propelled by Constructivism

2019 ◽  
pp. 444-456
Author(s):  
Kathaleen Reid-Martinez ◽  
Linda D. Grooms
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Online Pedagogy ◽  
Online Distance Education ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Online Distance ◽  
Military Communities

Augmenting communication in and among those in the academic, business, and military communities, the exponential advancement of science and technology has availed vast amounts of information to virtually millions of people around the globe. In conjunction with this knowledge explosion has been a growing concern for the democratization of the learning process, with constructivism driving much of the educational agenda, most particularly in online distance education. This chapter examines the resurgence of the constructivist approach to teaching and learning, its convergence with rapidly changing technological advances, and its relationship to future trends in online pedagogy.

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