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Argued for more self-expression among children and to create a more open environment for children to act on their impulses in creative ways.

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It was sought to create curriculum and teaching methods that are based on students needs, interests and initiatives.

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A child’s interest will be harnessed by a teacher that will create a learning environment that will that will motivate them and lead to a natural desired learning outcome.

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Relates teachers to their students as individuals who have needs, feelings, desires, and attitudes.

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The role of the teacher is a guide and fellow “traveler” as oppose to an authoritarian and classroom director.

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The role of teachers is to help students how to learn and learn independently. This will then develop them into self-sufficient adults in a changing environment.

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Education and learning are constantly happing in our everyday lives.

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Subject matter is integrated in usage in the world and individuals stay on task until it is complete or there is a natural break.

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Education is life and is not confined in four walls of a school.

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Classroom activity should focus on problem solving instead of artificial methods of teaching subjects.

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Project method helps students go through problem solving, perseverance and the approach of significance to students.

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Social atmosphere of school should be cooperative and democratic.

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Schools should promote student government, free discussion of ideas, and involvement of students and faculty in both learning and educational planning.

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Learning are more advanced through cooperation.

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Students will learn when they are not frustrated or don’t feel like the teachers and adults are seeking to impose their wills and goals upon them.

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Can be encouraging students to use active techniques like experiments, and real-world problem-solving to create more knowledge

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Teaches students to reflect on and talk about what they are doing and how their understanding is changing

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The teacher makes sure she understands the students' preexisting conceptions, and guides the activity to address those conceptions and then be able to build on them.

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

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Students are able to become "expert learners" by questioning themselves and their strategies

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By asking questions, students are able to broaden their tools to keep learning

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With a well-planned classroom environment, the students learn how to learn

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Always guided by the teacher, students learn and are able to construct their knowledge actively rather than just mechanically ingesting knowledge from the teacher or the textbook.

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The constructivist teacher provides tools such as problem-solving and inquiry-based learning activities where students are able to formulate and test their ideas, draw conclusions and inferences, and pool and convey their knowledge in a collaborative learning environment.

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Constructivism transforms the student from simply a passive recipient of information to an active participant in the learning process.

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Students learn best in a classroom in which both teacher and students think of knowledge not as inert factoids to be memorized, but as a dynamic, ever-changing view of the world we live in and the ability to successfully stretch and explore that view.

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Students learn as they become engaged by applying their existing knowledge and real-world experience, learning to hypothesize, testing their theories, and ultimately drawing conclusions from their findings.

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Students learn as they tap into and are able to trigger their own innate curiosity about the world and how things work.

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Students learn when they are urged to be actively involved in their own process of learning

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Students learn best when the teacher takes on the role of asking good questions

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Students learn when the focus starts to shift from the teacher to the students.