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The Difference Between Constructivism And Constructionism

TeachThought

Edith Ackerman, a “ Swiss-born American psychologist who explored the interactions between developmental psychology, play, learning and design. Learning by Making: Knowledge construction is most effective when learners are actively involved in making something tangible.

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PROOF POINTS: The surprising effectiveness of having kids study why they failed

The Hechinger Report

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. The Hechinger Report is an independent news organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University, but has no relationship with the middle school or the researchers involved in the study. )

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Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class

The Hechinger Report

Before Rockville Centre detracked math in the ninth and 10th grades, for example, it added support math classes in middle school so that all students graduated eighth grade having completed algebra. Wells Middle School, D.C.’s s newest SEM school, opened just last year.

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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve

The Hechinger Report

It’s not always easy to tell whether the new approaches help overall student performance, because schools interested in this type of experimentation are often innovating in other ways as well: changing grading policies, moving to more project-based learning models and rethinking discipline strategies.

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Middle school’s moment: What the science tells us about improving the middle grades

The Hechinger Report

In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —