One of the lessons I have learnt with group work is that you cannot assume that students come to the class with team work skills. You only realise the latter when the group begins to struggle with orienting the group project to a successful completion. Make sure that you do a team building exercise first to avoid this situation I have described.

Best regards,

Debra

Please study the scientific articles in Attachment. I apologize for the fact that one manuscript is in Spanish. Please, study the reference in the end of this article.

Please check these. These are not lesson plans but short modules

One of the lessons I have learnt with group work is that you cannot assume that students come to the class with team work skills. You only realise the latter when the group begins to struggle with orienting the group project to a successful completion. Make sure that you do a team building exercise first to avoid this situation I have described.

Best regards,

Debra

Dear Ashok Nakum

As I see it, constructivist learning is based on the idea that learners are the main responsible for their learning and development. According to constructivist approaches to learning, students aim to understand, reinvent and reconstruct everything they learn and not to be, say, mere containers that passively receive, accept, and memorize ready made truths or truths imposed on them from outside. Within a constructivist framework there is no place to indoctrination in that teachers are more mentors and organizers of learning experiences and situations than simple transmitters of accumulated knowledge and ready made truths. In contrast to traditional approaches to learning and their appeal to the conservative methods, constructivist approaches appeal to the active methods, whose main goal is to give rise to creators and innovators, not conformist people. The idea that individuals are the main responsible for their development and education through their actions upon objects and interactions with other individuals lies at the heart of Piaget's theory of pschological development. Constructivist theories a la J. Piaget should not be confounded with constructionist theories a la K. Gergen. In other words, contrary to the postmodern constructionist claim that all knowledge and value is socially constructed, Piaget's consructivist account assumes that individuals all construct essentially the same understanding of knowledge and value as as a result of their active interactions with the physical and social environment.

Best wishes,

Orlando