1. Practice What You Preach: Engaging Your Students as They Learn Constructivist Theory
Erin Horan Deanna Cozart
Educational Psychology; Educational Theory and Practice
Center for Teaching and Learning

2. Intros please! Name, affiliation, anything else
Favorite thing you’ve learned this semester so far

3. Group Activity 4 different groups
Create a lesson using the criteria given to you
Can’t decide? Scientific Method

4. Group Activity

5. Group Activity Some things to consider: SLO Items?
Student info/knowledge?

6. Group 1(s) Criteria: Materials for students to work with No time limit
No guidance from teacher
Lesson Type: ________________________

7. Group 2(s)
Criteria:
Gives students a real world issue to solve to learn the topic
You, as the teacher, cannot help students
Lesson Type: ________________________

8. Group 3(s)
Criteria:
Gives students a real world issue to solve to learn the topic
You will act as a guide as necessary to the students
Lesson Type: ________________________

9. Group 4(s)
Criteria:
Students participate in discussion in groups (2 or more)
Equal participation among students
Lesson Type: ________________________

10. My SLO? Learn different lesson plans for Constructivism
handout
Modified jigsaw

11. Constructivism
Constructivism- active role of the learner in building understanding and making sense of information

12. Constructivism First wave constructivism- who was it?
Radical constructivism

13. Constructivism Second wave constructivism- ?
Cultural tools, Social interaction

14. Constructivist Methods

15. My Current SoTL project
SoTL; Teaching as Research
Goal: Understand students’ views of constructivism
Compared my lesson to a ”control” lecture
Student expectations about participating (icebreaker)
General feedback- they loved it!

16. Practice What You Preach: Engaging Your Students as They Learn Constructivist Theory
Erin Horan; Deanna Cozart
Educational Psychology; Educational Theory and Practice
Center for Teaching and Learning
University of Georgia