Most of these methods rely on
some form of guided discovery where the teacher avoids most direct instruction and attempts to lead the student through questions and activities to discover, discuss, appreciate and verbalize the new knowledge.”
(Read more… Constructivist Teaching Methods Wikipedia, CC: BY SA).

Jean Piaget is considered the founder of Constructivism. He claimed that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas. Through a process of accommodation and assimilation, individuals construct new knowledge from their experiences. When individuals assimilate, they incorporate the new experience into an already existing framework without changing that framework. Accommodation is the process of reframing one's mental representation of the external world to fit new experiences. While constructivism is a theory about how we learn, Piaget’s views cannot be considered a pedagogy. However, constructivism is often associated with pedagogic approaches that promote active learning, or learning by doing.

Describe how collaborative, as students come to understand key concepts, processes and skills in the subject matter and use them to solve real-world problems (KD.3.a).
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