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Constructivist Learning Design

Key Questions for Teaching to Standards
By: George W. Gagnon, Michelle Collay

Foreword by Richard A. Schmuck

Build student-centered learning into your standards-based lesson plans!

With clear classroom applications and ready-to-use planning templates, this research-based resource guides teachers through the complex process of aligning constructivist learning events with standards-based curriculum. Constructivist Learning Design provides a six-step framework for lesson planning and assessment:

  • Situation: develop goals, tasks, and curriculum standards
  • Grouping: group students and materials, and use cooperative learning
  • Bridge: recall prior knowledge using students' cognitive maps, skills, values, motivation, and expectations
  • Task: use higher-level thinking skills and problem-based learning
  • Exhibit: arrange student portfolios and work samples
  • Reflection: synthesize critical thinking and knowledge

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412909563
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2005
  • Page Count: 256
  • Publication date: January 06, 2006

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"Very practical and user-friendly . . ."
--Linda R. Kroll, Professor
Department of Education, Mills College

Build student-centered learning into your standards-based curriculum and lesson plans!

Educators expect learners to solve problems, think critically, communicate effectively, and collaborate well. These complex processes require young learners to engage in active learning and to understand that their own experience is the foundation for new learning. They also require teachers to move from the traditional role of "sage on the stage" to the new role of "guide on the side."

Constructivist Learning Design offers teachers a six-step framework for lesson planning and assessment:

  • Situation: develop goals, tasks, and curriculum standards
  • Grouping: group students and materials, and use cooperative learning
  • Bridge: recall prior knowledge using students' cognitive maps, skills, values, motivation, and expectations
  • Task: use higher-level thinking skills and problem-based learning
  • Exhibit: arrange student portfolios and work samples
  • Reflection: synthesize critical thinking and knowledge

With clear classroom applications and ready-to-use planning templates, this research-based resource guides teachers through the complex process of aligning constructivist learning events with standards-based curriculum. Engage students in tasks, help them think for themselves, and support them in making meaning of their learning!


Key features

  • Constructivist lesson planning and teaching using Gagnon & Collay's well-respected six-element Constructivist Learning Design (CLD)
  • Research based, student centered, and developmentally appropriate for K-12 learners
  • Promotes critical thinking, higher-level thinking, and reflective thinking
  • Offers clear classroom applications, ready-to-use planning templates, and a comprehensive list of resources
  • Compatible with differentiated instruction, problem-based learning, inquiry-based learning, cooperative learning, and other student-centered pedagogies
  • Aligns with standards-based curricular goals and standardized tests

Author(s)

Author(s)

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George W. Gagnon

George W. Gagnon, Jr. is the Director of K-12 Partnerships in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He works with teacher and parent partners to support students who would be the first generation in their family to be engineers or scientists. George uses Math Models he has designed to support students in developing a conceptual understanding of mathematics. George has studied learning for thirty years as a teacher, principal, and teacher educator. Now he applies his research on constructivist learning design, appropriate assessment, and learning communities to encourage educational equity in urban public schools. George and Michelle live in Oakland, California, and are actively involved with the neighborhood public schools their children attend.
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Michelle Collay

Michelle Collay is a School Coach for the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools (BayCES) in Oakland, California, a private non-profit organization supporting urban small school initiatives. She supports school leader development and coordinates classroom-based teacher inquiry for the purposes of improving student achievement. Previously, she worked as a faculty member and administrator in teacher preparation and graduate teacher education in public and private universities. Collay conducts seminars and workshops about professional learning communities, constructivist learning design, and portfolio development. Before completing doctoral studies in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Oregon, she taught music and mathematics in elementary and junior high school and continues to play the bassoon in local ensembles. She and her husband, George Gagnon, write, teach, and parent together and are parent leaders in their children’s neighborhood school in Oakland.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Introduction: Learning Design

Situation Section: Constructivist Learning Design

Groups Section: Learning Considerations

Bridge Section: What Is Learning?

Task Section: Learning Characteristics

Exhibit: Fairy Tales Learning Episodes

Reflection Section: Precedents for Constructivist Learning Design

Concluding Remarks: Where Do We Stand?

Chapter 1: Designing Situations

Situation Section: Defining Guiding Questions

Groups Section: Co-constructing the CLD

Bridge Section: Questions for Analyzing Situations

Task Section: Revising a Situation Element

Exhibit Section: Example Situation Elements

Reflection Section: Precedents for a Situation Element

Concluding Remarks: Thoughts on Designing Situations

Chapter 2: Organizing Groups

Situation Section: Deciding on Groups

Groups Section: The Power of Collaborative Thinking

Bridge Section: Questions for Forming Groups

Task Section: Revising a Groups Element

Exhibit Section: Example Groups Elements

Reflection Section: Precedents for a Groups Element

Concluding Remarks: Thoughts on Arranging Groups

Chapter 3: Building Bridges

Situation Section: Surfacing Prior Knowledge

Groups Section: Connecting With Students’ Thinking

Bridge Section: Questions for Structuring Bridges

Task Section: Revising a Bridge Element

Exhibit Section: Example Bridge Elements

Reflection Section: Precedents for a Bridge Element

Concluding Remarks: Thoughts on Building Bridges

Chapter 4: Crafting Tasks

Situation Section: Crafting a Task

Groups Section: Thinking Together to Make Meaning

Bridge Section: Questions for Framing Tasks

Task Section: Revising a Task Element

Exhibit Section: Example Task Elements

Reflection Section: Precedents for a Task element

Concluding Remarks: Thoughts on Crafting Tasks

Chapter 5: Arranging Exhibits

Situation Section: Defining the Nature of an Exhibit

Groups Section: The Power of Students Presenting their Thinking

Bridge Section: Questions for Encouraging Exhibits

Task Section: Revising an Exhibit Element

Exhibit Section: Example Exhibit Elements

Reflection Section: Precedents for an Exhibit Element

Concluding Remarks: Thoughts on Arranging Exhibits

Chapter 6: Leading Reflections

Situation Section: Leading Reflection on Thinking

Groups Section: Reflecting on Making Meaning

Bridge Section: Questions for Inviting Reflections

Task Section: Revising a Reflection Element

Exhibit Section: Example Reflection Elements

Reflection Section: Precedents for a Reflection Element

Concluding Remarks: Thoughts on Leading Reflections

Chapter 7: Teaching Designs

Dancing a Design

Pacing, Rhythm, and Footwork

Choosing Music for the Dance

Rehearsing the Dance

A Tale of Three Dancers

Dancing Together

Inviting Administrators to the Dance

Inviting Others to the Dance

Resources


References


Index


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