EME 2040 Reflection # 3

Shaniece N. Jeffers
EME 2040
October 3, 2009
Reflection #3
Prof. Joseph McNair



What is a constructivist lesson plan? Well from my understanding a constructivist lesson plan is basically how well the student can show feedback on what they have learned throughout the lesson. The teacher gives the students assignments so that they can get back their knowledge on the activities that were offered to them. This constructivist lesson plan is a very detailing lesson plan, because it digs in deep into the mind of the students. It is called the constructivist lesson plan; because it was develop for the students in order for the teacher to know whether they understood the lecture reasonable.

The constructivist lesson plan has six important elements that each teacher must follow. These elements are situations, grouping, bridge, questions, exhibit, and reflections. Each of these six basic elements is design to help a teacher understand what the child is thinking. For example a teacher must create a situation, whether by grouping or bridging. Then the teacher as questions just so that they can get to know where that child’s mind state is in, after the teacher lets the students showcase and reflect on whatever knowledge they may have on the situation.

In a situation, the teacher must have a plan on how to teach the lesson to their students, and also they must see if the lesson is understandable so that the student can grasp it quickly. By grouping, the teacher is trying to find a way to peer up the students, whether it’s by twos, threes, or whether they feel that would help their students. Bridging is basically pointing the students into a certain direction; meaning whatever direction they feel is best for their student. Questions help to make teachers job easier for them because it opens a light of where each student stand, showing the teachers who may need the most work on, or even one on one time with the teacher. In exhibit, the teacher gets to see the more creative side of their student; because this is the time the student gets to showcase what they learn in their own unique way.

When a student writes how they feel about what they have learned, it is called a reflection paper. The student is looking back on what they have or may have learned in the present in order for the teacher to know if they understood the concept of the lesson. This paper is basically the big picture of what you learned within the time you been in the classroom. The information can be grasping from the teacher themselves or from within a book that the student has or had interprets. This is the general feedback that the teacher can learn different things from their student.

From doing the lesson plan handout and power-point, I strongly believe that the constructivist lesson plan is mostly the best lesson plan. It helps the student to do some heavy thinking, whether they are working by themselves of in a group. The teachers get to ask the students questions in order to figure out what they learned from each lessons. Sometimes the teachers also let the student come up with questions, just to see if they can structure sentences into questions. Overall I must say that I enjoyed the different lesson plans, but the constructivist lesson plan is the best way that a teacher can get feedback from a student.