EDPE 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-12: Deductive Reasoning, Learned Helplessness, Operant Conditioning
7 Nov 2017
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Benefits of group meaning-making in the classroom: sharing ideas an perspectives enhances students" understanding in several ways: Students can clarify and organize their ideas well enough to verbalize them to others. Students have opportunities to elaborate on what they have learned- for example, by drawing inferences, generating hypotheses, and asking questions. Students are exposed to the views of others- views that may reflect a more accurate understanding of the topics under discussion. Students discover flaws and inconsistencies in their own thinking, thereby helping them identify gaps in their understanding. Promoting effective knowledge construction: ways to help students construct a rich and sophisticated knowledge base: Conceptual understanding: knowledge acquired in an integrated and meaningful fashion. Organize units around a few core ideas and themes. Explain how new ideas relate to students" own experiences and to things they have previously learned. Show students that conceptual understanding of classroom subject matter is far more important than isolated facts.
