Journal+for+Week+3

When I first started reading this article, my first reaction was that i am doing it all wrong within my own classroom. I felt as if i am 75% traditional and 25% constructivist. However, as I read on, my thoughts about how I "run" my classroom changed. Maybe, i am 50/50. Of course, I'd love to be 100% in using the constuctivist approach in teaching my students, but because if the state indicators and how some of them are so hard to teach and the fact that our school didn't make AYP the last three years and is on the chopping block this year, going totally constructivist seems a little out of reach right now. Sometimes teaching students how they learn seems time consuming if not impossible. This article did change my perspective on how i do teach most of the time. I liked the fact that it gave examples of how the constructivist approach looks in a classroom. Most articles you read tell you what the concept is and that you should be doing it with your students, but there are never any examples or applications on how to do it. I am a visual learner, myself, and I usually need to see how to apply a concept, or I need an example to go with it. Overall, i found this article useful and very easy and understandable to read. I am sure I will refer back to it in the future when hopefully the state indicators become a little "looser."