https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq en-us 2016-11-28 19:02:23 UTC 2025-10-02 18:21:53 UTC hello@padlet.com natalie_w612 https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140300787 A big part of Constructivism is learning through experience. In a Language Arts classroom, students should learn concepts by doing them. An easy learning experience would be to have students write while applying different concepts that they learn each day. ]]> 2016-11-28 19:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140300787 natalie_w612 https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140304536 A great learning experience is Project Based Learning. This type of experience is where students learn by doing a project. An example of this experience would be to teach the standard "Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience" by having students do a writing project over time and having students follow the writing process as the teacher introduces each part. To follow the Project Based Learning guidelines the students should be writing about a topic that is interesting to them and has a challenging problem or question. It should be relevant to real world problems and should be written in the student's own style. Check out the website for more]]> 2016-11-28 19:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140304536 natalie_w612 https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140309116 Problem Based Learning is where students learn a concept by discussing a problem. First students discuss the problem, then they try to theorize explanations for the problem. Afterwards the students go on to research the problem. A great way to implement this model in a Language Arts course would be to have students learn the concept of how to "Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text" by reading informational texts on a certain issue. If I were teaching a class right now, in November 2016, I would use the issue of the pipeline riots on the Standing Rock Reservation and have students read and analyze texts on the topic while they discuss and research the issue. This model could easily lead into the Project Based Learning if the teacher had the students write about the issue after the research. Click below to read more about Problem Based Learning.]]> 2016-11-28 19:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140309116 natalie_w612 https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140313606 This model gets students motivated because they are learning about something they are curious about. The fundamental idea of this model is to have students learn in order to answer a complex question. The question can either be from the teacher or the students. This model is similar to Problem Based Learning and perhaps could stem from it. If I were using the same topic of the pipeline riots I would ask the students "Who is right?" or "What should be done to appease both parties?" Or I would have students discuss and come up with their own questions in order to answer them. We could go over many of the curriculum standards by reading informational texts to answer the questions such as "Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text" and learn writing standards such as "Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence" while answering the complex questions. Check out the Wikipedia page for more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_learning]]> 2016-11-28 19:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140313606 natalie_w612 https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140367003 This model is often paired with Inquiry Based Learning. A good distinction to make is in the definitions of the words. Inquiry is focused on asking questions whereas discovery may not have a focused question. Lessons should still be based on something that the students want to discover, but won't necessarily focus on a question. In Language Arts, an excellent way to teach students how to infer would be to use discovery learning. To use the model, the teacher could have students stop while reading a text and have them discuss different theories and eventually discover what really happens. ]]> 2016-11-28 23:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140367003 natalie_w612 https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140367774 Cooperative Learning is done when students learn together as well as teach each other. A perfect example of this type of learning in a Language Arts classroom would be to do a Jigsaw activity. A Jigsaw is when students learn something separately and teach it to a small group, or move around to different groups to learn different things. As a teacher, I would use a Jigsaw at the beginning of a unit to introduce vocabulary or concepts. There are many other ways that cooperative learning could be used throughout a unit. ]]> 2016-11-28 23:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140367774 natalie_w612 https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140368114 Service Learning is an awesome way to make everything relevant! Service Learning is where students do service in order to learn or solidify a concept. An example I would like to try in the future would be to have the students run a Sub4Santa or like charity while reading and analyzing A Christmas Carol. Students could focus strongly on the theme of the book while performing their service project. ]]> 2016-11-28 23:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/natalie_w612/5buwm3xf42nq/wish/140368114