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Curriculum emphasizes big concepts beginning with the whole and expanding to include the parts.

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Constructivism, is basically a theory based on observation and scientific study- about how people learn.

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Learning is interactive, building on what the learner already knows.

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Constructivist teachers encourage students to constantly assess how the activity is helping them gain understanding.

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Students primarily work in groups

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Teachers seek the students point of view in order to understand student learning for use in subsequent conceptions.

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Assessment of student is interwoven with teaching and occurs through teacher observation of students at work and through exhibitions and portfolios

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Let the learners show what they have learned in different ways. Not just through written tests.

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Curriculum emphasizes big concepts, beginning with the whole and expanding to include the parts.

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Assessments include students work, observations and points of view, as well s tests, process is important as tests

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Students are viewed as thinkers with emerging theories about the world.

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Teachers behave in an interactive manner, mediating the environment of students.

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Teachers have a dialogue with the learners, helping them construct their own knowledge.

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Students construct their own knowledge with guidance of the teacher.