Constructivist Teacher

Twelve Traits of a Constructivist Teacher:)
Constructivist teachers encourage and accept student autonomy and initiative.
Constructivist teachers use raw data and primary sources, along with manipulative, interactive, and physical material.
When framing tasks, constructivist teachers use cognitive terminologies such as classify, analyze, predict, and create.
Constructivist teachers allow student responses to drive lessons, shift instructional strategies, and alter content.
Constructivist teachers inquire about students' understandings of concepts before sharing their own understanding concepts.
Constructivist teachers encourage students to engage in dialogue, both with the teacher and with one another.
Constructivist teachers encourage student inquiry by asking thoughtful, open-ended questions and encouraging student questions of one another.
Constructivist teachers seek elaboration of student initial responses.
Constructivist teachers engage students in experiences that might engender contradictions to their initial hypotheses encourage discussion.
Constructivist teachers allow wait time after posing questions.
Constructivist teachers provide time for students to construct relationships and create metaphors.
Constructivist teachers nurture students' natural curiosity through frequent use of the learning cycle model.

In conclusion, the teacher serves as a coach or guide for student learning. As a facilitator, the teacher challenges, questions, and stimulates the students in their thinking, problem solving and self-directed study. After a while, the students will similarly challenge each other and themselves as they work, think, and learn. In this process, students assume responsibility for their learning and move from teacher-centered to student-centered education. The student becomes an active as opposed to passive learner.

In lab session of this week, machines and their functioning are explained by the first group. They are effective and succesful. The second group focused on earthquake experiments. Their activities were also effective.

I learned these words;

stone: piece of rock shaped or cut for some purpose
reciprocity: mutual action or reaction