Krajcik response

"Tell me, and I forget
Show me, and I remember
Involve me, and I understand"

Social constructivist model has many aspects that I would include in my teaching methods.  The goal of all teachers should be to actively engage their students in the tasks at hand.  It involves spinning a not so interesting topic, that must be taught,  in a way that all students would actively be engaged.  It seems like an  impossible task because all students are different but this is where knowing your students comes into play.  This model focuses on learning as a social interaction, that students need to be able to ask questions and bounce their questions off others around them.  By bouncing their questions off others they are able to mold their understandings to explain a concept.  A way to actively engage the students is by doing hands on activities. I know that all of the things I remember from growing up involves activities that I physically manipulated.  I don't remember all the worksheets that I did even though I know that there were a ton of them.  Students need to have multiple means of how to represent their work and findings.  It isn't as easy to assess these multiple ways as a teacher but it shows more than a number from a test.  Students know so much more than what the test is testing them over.