Colby Wegter
Theoretical Foundations for Constructivist Teaching
Piaget and Vygotsky are pioneers of constructivism for a reason. I agree with their thoughts and ideas about how children learn. While they both agree on a lot of things I am more inclined to side with Vygotsky because I personally believe that learning does lead to development and that spontaneous concepts when paired with schema that the student already possesses actually leads to further development of that student.
Students have to interpret their surroundings and they don’t just add to their personal knowledge by simply looking at things. They have to use their previous schema to look at something and compare it to something they already know and if they have never seen anything like it they have to somehow make meaning of it by whatever means necessary.
I agree with the constructivist view simply because of learning leading to development and because of all of the sharing that is involved. Sharing before, during, and after the phenomena helps students predict and reflect and make sense of things. They remember things better with constant discussion about what they are seeing or hearing. This would be great to be paired with science notebooks so that they have all of their thoughts at their disposal. It would really enhance discussion, which means it would enhance their learning.
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