In constructivist classroom, the focus tends to shift from the teacher to students. The classroom is no longer a place where the teacher pours knowledge into passive students.

Students are urged to be actively involved in their own process of learning.

The teacher functions more as a facilitator who coaches,mediates prompts and helps students develop and their assess their understanding

students work primarily alone vs. students work in groups

Knowledge is seen as inert vs. knowledge is changing with experiences

Learning is based or repetition vs. learning is interactive, building on what the student already knows.

Prompts students to formulate their own questions.

Allow multiple interpretations and expressions of learning.

Encourage group work and the use of peers as resources.

Constructivism goes back to socrates. When he led his students to realize for themsleves the weakness in their thinking.

Piaget believed that humas learn through the construction of one logical structure after another.

Dewey called for education to be grounded in real experience. Inquiry is a key part of proximal learning.

Vygotsky introduced the social aspect of learning and constructivism. He defined the zone of proximal learning.

Bruner initiated curriculum change based on the notion that learning is an active and social process in which students construct new ideas or concepts based in their current knowledge.

Seymour Papert's groundbreaking work in using computers to teach children has led to the widespread of technology.

Critics say that constructivism have been most successful with children from privileged backgrounds while disadvantage children benefit more from explicit instruction.

Critics say that collaborative aspects of constructivist classrooms tend to produce a tyranny of the majority/

Critics say there is little hard evidence that constructivist method work.

Children like learning and learn more when they are actively involved.

Education works best it concentrates on thinking and understanding rather than memorization.

Constructivists learning is transferable. In constructivits classroom, students create organizing principles that they can take with them to other learning setting.