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Constructivism and the Technology of Instruction: A Conversation
by David H. Jonassen Thomas M. DuffyThis book is about the implications of constructivism for instructional design practices, and more importantly, it is about a dialogue between instructional developers and learning theorists. Working with colleagues in each discipline, the editors were amazed to find a general lack of familiarity with each others' work. From an instructional design perspective, it seems that the practice of instructional design must be based on some conception of how people learn and what it means to learn. From a learning theory perspective, it seems obvious that the value of learning theory rests in the ability to predict the impact of alternative learning environments or instructional practices on what is learned. Thus the interchange of ideas between these disciplines is essential. As a consequence of both the information rich environment and the technological capability, business is seen moving away from a fixed curriculum and toward providing information and instruction when it is needed. These changes bring about a window of opportunity establishing a dialogue that will provide for a richer understanding of learning and the instructional environment required to achieve that learning. The editors hope that this book is the beginning of the conversation and that it will serve to spur continued conversation between those involved in learning theory and those involved in the design of instruction.
Constructivism in Education: Building On The Pioneering Work Of Ernst Von Glasersfeld (Studies In Mathematics Education Ser.)
by Leslie P. Steffe Jerry GaleUnique in offering a multidisciplinary perspective on key issues of alternative epistemologies in education, this collection includes contributions from scholars in family therapy, epistemology, and mathematics, science, and language education. These respected researchers were brought together to develop the theme of constructivism as it applies to many diversified fields. This book examines key distinctions of various constructivist epistemologies, comparing and contrasting the various paradigms. Each section provides both keynote positions on a particular alternative paradigm as well as critical comments by respondents regarding that position. Several chapters also present a synthesis of the alternative epistemological perspectives.
Constructivist Education in an Age of Accountability
by David W. KrittThis book contrasts authentic approaches to education with classroom practices based primarily on standards external to the individuals who are supposed to learn. While other books tend to promote either a desperate scramble for meeting standards or determined resistance to neoliberal reforms, this book fills that gap in ways that will inspire practitioners, prospective teachers, and teacher educators. Mandates pay only lip service to constructivist and social constructivist principles while thwarting the value of both students and teachers actively creating understandings. Authors in this book assert the central importance of a range of constructivist approaches to teaching, learning, and thinking, inviting careful reflection on the goals and values of education.
Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure?
by Sigmund Tobias Thomas M. DuffyConstructivist Instruction: Success or Failure? brings together leading thinkers from both sides of the hotly debated controversy about constructivist approaches to instruction. Although constructivist theories and practice now dominate the fields of the learning sciences, instructional technology, curriculum and teaching, and educational psychology, they have also been the subject of sharp criticism regarding sparse research support and adverse research findings. This volume presents: the evidence for and against constructivism; the challenges from information-processing theorists; and commentaries from leading researchers in areas such as text comprehension, technology, as well as math and science education, who discuss the constructivist framework from their perspectives. Chapters present detailed views from both sides of the controversy. A distinctive feature of the book is the dialogue built into it between the different positions. Each chapter concludes with discussions in which two authors with opposing views raise questions about the chapter, followed by the author(s)’ responses to those questions; for some chapters there are several cycles of questions and answers. These discussions, and concluding chapters by the editors, clarify, and occasionally narrow the differences between positions and identify needed research.
Constructivist Learning Design: Key Questions for Teaching to Standards
by Michelle Collay George W. GagnonUse the Constructivist Learning Design (CLD) six-step planning framework to engage students in constructivist learning events that meet standards-based outcomes.
Constructivist Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners
by Sharon Adelman Reyes Trina Lynn ValloneThis book provides guidelines for using constructivist teaching methods with English language learners and includes classroom examples, grade-level connections, and strategies that promote educational equity.
Constructivist Strategies: Meeting Standards & Engaging Adolescent Minds
by Chandra Foote Catherine Battaglia Paul VermetteThis book demonstrates how student-centered learning activities can help your middle and high school students meet curriculum standards. Its vivid and authentic examples will appeal to you if you embrace active learning and want to apply constructivist methodologies in your classroom. This book explains the links between constructivism and other innovative teaching practices such as: - cooperative learning - multiple intelligences - portfolio assessment - curriculum mapping - culturally relevant teaching - and many others Applications of these practices in classrooms are demonstrated and displayed by: - sample lesson and unit plans - summary charts - classroom management models - examples of student assessments
Constructivist Teacher Education: Building a World of New Understandings
by Virginia RichardsonFirst published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Constructivist Teaching by Heart: A Child-Centered Approach for Educators, PreK-3
by Krista Calvert Dana McMillanThis insightful book offers a modern take on the time-honored tradition of developmentally appropriate, child-centered, constructivist philosophy of instruction: Teaching children one at a time, yet all at once. The book provides a comprehensive road map to teaching that supports student engagement, child development, classroom environment, grouping and organization, authentic literacy instruction, and culturally informed practices.Through a series of practical chapter essays and examples, the authors push back against scripted curricula and "one-size-fits-all" school initiatives, offering instead rich examples and guiding questions to bring you closer to an authentic teaching approach that honors students and their learning.Designed for early childhood through third-grade teachers, principals, administrators, and pre-service students, Constructivist Teaching by Heart is essential reading for professional development, peer discussions, university coursework, individual study, and everyone on the journey to making children the heart of their classrooms.
Construya su retiro en 3 años o menos: Descubra el poder de los ingresos apalancados
by J. J. MarichalesConstruya su retiro en 3 años o menos Descubra el poder de los ingresos apalancados <P><P>¡Cien millones de personas no pueden estar equivocadas! Sí, mí querido lector, son cien millones de personas en diferentes países del mundo las que han descubierto el poder de los ingresos apalancados y están desarrollando una actividad económica que les ha permitido obtener ingresos suficientes como para disfrutar de un retiro temprano, con un estilo de vida que nunca soñaron. <P>En este libro encontrará toda la información básica que usted debe conocer para incorporarse a esta maravillosa tendencia mundial y así poder disfrutar en poco tiempo de unos ingresos y de una calidad de vida que nunca imaginó. <P>Este libro es, sin duda, la herramienta perfecta para la duplicación del negocio de todo networker.
Construye tu propia marca for dummies
by Amy WillCREA TU MARCA CON UN ADN DEFINIDO Y MÍRALA CRECER Todo cliente desea tener una conexión profunda con las marcas detrás de los productos que compra. Por ello, si estás iniciando un negocio necesitas con urgencia saber cómo crear una marca potente con un adn capaz de dejar una profunda huella en el mercado. Debes tener una estrategia de lanzamiento destacada, así como un plan ambicioso para hacer crecer tu negocio en un entorno voraz y competitivo.Amy Will, quien fundó su primera empresa a los 24 años y que ha sido el cerebro detrás de otras cuatro más, revela en Construye tu propia marca for dummies lecciones cruciales basadas en su propia experiencia que van desde la creación de una poderosa identidad para tus productos, hasta cómo estar preparado para escalar tu negocio a medida que comienza a despegar. Además encontrarás estudios de casos de algunas de las marcas más sólidas, acompañadas de ideas y consejos de exitosos empresarios y de expertos en marketing. En este libro aprenderás a: Destacar tu marca en redes sociales. Crear campañas virales.Construir relaciones de lealtad a largo plazo con tus clientes. Tratar con la competencia. Ya sea que estés pensando en iniciar un negocio o que estés consolidando tu empresa, tener una identidad de marca inolvidable será clave para tener un futuro exitoso.
Construyendo Puentes (Building Bridges): Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Spanish
by Josef Hellebrandt Lucía T. VaronaThirteenth in the Service-Learning in Disciplines series, this book provides a sound approach to the many conceptual and methodological changes that have taken place in the teaching of languages and cultures. By reviewing the accomplishments of Spanish teachers and what theory informs us, the editors have compiled a series of suggestions to help students and teachers "connect with communities in order to facilitate learning with each other rather than about each other".
Consultant in Audiology: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Consultant in Audiology Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: audiology, aural rehabilitation, and various techniques of administering and interpreting audiological tests for adults and children; speech therapy, speech tests and methods of determining causes of speech defects; development of speech, hearing, and language in normal and hearing-impaired children; interprofessional relationships and coordination of information from diverse specialists; role of paraprofessionals; principles and practices of supervison and training; and other related areas.
Consultant: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series #C-2740)
by National Learning CorporationThe Consultant Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: Early childhood education; Written communication; Analysis of information; and more.
Consultant: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series #C-2740)
by National Learning CorporationThe Consultant (Early Childhood Education) Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: Early childhood education; Written communication; Analysis of information; and more.
Consultants and Consultancy: the Case of Education (Educational Governance Research #4)
by Helen M. Gunter Colin MillsThis book is a comprehensive study into and about consultants doing consultancy, and having influence in ways that generate concerns about an emerging 'consultocracy', with privileged access to governments and public services. It presents a detailed mapping of consultants and consultancy in education as a site of change and modernisation in public sector service provision. It considers consultancy at a macro-level of globalised policy, at a meso-level of national government policy, and at a micro level with vivid descriptions and analyses of consultants at work. The rapid rise of 'edubusinesses', combined with the restructuring of public services in western style democracies, has generated new types of 'knowledge actors' within education policy. Three main developments that have led to this change are: the entry of education policy and service consultants from within major companies into the public education market place; the emergence of 'celebrity' entrepreneurial actors and private businesses who make interventions into Universities and schools; and the rapid growth of small businesses based on individuals who have relocated their work from the public to the private sector. Such knowledge actors and the complexities they bring to public education are as yet under described and largely un-theorized. Based on current research and drawing upon a range of theoretical tools, this book fills the gap.
Consultation Across Cultural Contexts: Consultee-Centered Case Studies (Consultation, Supervision, and Professional Learning in School Psychology Series)
by Antoinette MirandaConsultation Across Cultural Contexts addresses the challenges that school psychologists face when working in unfamiliar settings and diverse cultural contexts. Establishing first the necessity of understanding and respecting these contexts, this book provides both theoretical background knowledge and a wealth of technical and practical information, animated by first-hand accounts. Divided into sections that touch upon topics such as difficult teachers and the role of poverty, race, and class, the selections include examples from diverse school ecologies, schools in various states of transition, resource challenged schools, and more.
Consultation: Creating School-Based Interventions (3rd Edition)
by Jon Carlson Don Dinkmeyer Jr.Recipient of the ACES Beech Award! Grounded in Adlerian Psychology, the methods presented by Don Dinkmeyer, Jr. and Jon Carlson in Consultation are based upon the assumption that problems in the home and the classroom result not only from the direct actions of disruptive students, but also from the expectations of teachers and parents. This text shows how counselors can encourage change in these supposed 'problem' children by helping authority figures recognize and alter the part they may be playing in exacerbating the negative actions of the student. Also included is a supplementary DVD depicting actual individual and group interviews with teachers and parents.
Consultation: Creating School-Based Interventions (4th Edition)
by Don Dinkmeyer Jr. Carlson Jon Rebecca E. MichelThe methods presented by Don Dinkmeyer, Jr., Jon Carlson, and Rebecca Michel in Consultation are based on the assumption that problems in the home and classroom result not only from the direct actions of disruptive students, but also from the expectations of teachers and parents. This newly expanded fourth edition continues the tradition of encouraging change in supposed 'problem' children by helping authority figures recognize and alter the part they may play in exacerbating negative behavior. New additions include: two all new chapters on assessment and mindfulness, multicultural and diverse case examples, as well as access to online video sessions that accompany the text.
Consultative Selling: The Hanan Formula for High-Margin Sales at High Levels
by Mack HANANWhen you help your customers and clients make profitable business decisions, the result is a win-win solution that can lead to a mutually beneficial long-term business relationship.In Consultative Selling, sales consultant Mack Hanan helps you achieve just that by introducing a formula that will take your sales to the next level--one that involves you exchanging your salesperson hat for that of a trusted consultant. You&’ll learn how to:create a two-tiered sales model to separate consultative sales from commodity sales;build and use consultative databases for value propositions and proof of performance;study your customers&’ cash flows to win proposals;use consultative selling strategies on the web;and cope with--and reverse--the inevitable &“no.&”For over four decades, Consultative Selling has empowered countless sales professionals to reap maximum success.Now, packed with new partnering strategies, cost/benefit analysis templates, detailed monetized value proposition models, outcome-based branding approaches, and powerful consulting tactics, the eighth edition of this invaluable resource will bring you wide-ranging success--making the competition irrelevant.
Consultee-Centered Consultation: Improving the Quality of Professional Services in Schools and Community Organizations (Consultation, Supervision, and Professional Learning in School Psychology Series)
by Jonathan H. Sandoval Nadine M. Lambert Ingrid HylanderThis book describes the theory, methods, and contemporary applications of consultee-centered consultation, a non-hierarchical, non-prescriptive helping relationship between a consultant and a person or group (consultee) seeking professional help with a client. The goal is to provide help in re-conceptualizing the consultee's work problem thereby 1) improving their relationship with the client and 2) expanding the professional repertoire of both consultant and consultee. Key features of this outstanding new book include the following:*Conceptual Change Focus--The process of conceptual change in both the consultant and consultee is stressed throughout the book.*Historical Perspectives--The first section describes the historical evolution of consultee-centered consultation beginning with the work of Gerald Caplan and progressing to its broad, contemporary version that accommodates various professions and multiple psychological orientations.*Numerous Examples--The book provides a wealth of examples illustrating how consultee-centered consultation can be applied within school, child-care, social welfare, hospital and corporate settings.*International Focus--The chapter contributors represent a wide range of geographical and professional expertise.*Evaluation Methods--The final section provides examples of evaluation methods.This volume is appropriate for school, counseling, and clinical and child clinical psychologists; human service professionals working with professionals from other disciplines; and special education leaders.
Consulting In Sport Psychology: Perspectives, Opportunities, and Practice Development
by Charles A. MaherThis important book provides practical and immediately applicable information about consulting in sport psychology in an accessible, step-by-step manner, focusing on lessons based on individual, team, and organizational levels.Evidence-based information and real-world sport psychology consulting experiences are detailed to enable practitioners to place sport psychology consulting in practical perspectives, identify meaningful and needed opportunities to engage in, and incorporate sport psychology consulting into their professional practices. Each chapter includes viewpoints, methods, procedures, and illustrations, and end-of-chapter exercises which challenge the practitioner to grow as a sport psychology consultant.Intended for practitioners and graduate students of sport psychology, as well as other professionals who consult about the mental aspect of sport and organizational performance, the book provides an authentic guide to consulting and practice development.
Consulting Pupils: What's In It For Schools? (What's in it for schools?)
by Julia Flutter Jean RuddockConsulting Pupils considers the potential benefits and implications of talking to students about teaching and learning in school, exploring its impact at different levels. Key issues included are: * the importance of engaging young learners in a focused dialogue about learning* the role of pupil consultation in helping schools to develop new directions for improvement* the wider implications of pupil consultation and participation in teaching the principles of citizenship and democracy. Through examples of pupil consultation initiatives in primary and secondary schools, the authors demonstrate how an agenda for change based on pupils' perspectives on teaching and learning can be used to improve classroom practice. Part of the What's In It For Schools series aimed at making educational policy issues relevant to practitioners, this book will be a valuable resource for practitioners, students and researchers interested in exploring pupils' perspectives on teaching and learning.
Consulting in a Nutshell: A practical guide to successful general practice consultations before, during and beyond the MRCGP
by Roger NeighbourPraise for the first edition: ‘…a unique book, written by a unique GP. There is no one better placed to pull together decades of learning and experience on how to achieve the greatest success in the general practice consultation. The relaxed pace of writing, the accessible examples, the clear narrative and the engaging anecdotes make this a resource that is accessible and useful to all who seek to improve their clinical consulting skills.’ Helen Stokes-Lampard, former Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners ‘Excellent and easy to remember structure; this is the approach I’ll use daily.’ GP ST3 The second edition of this well-received book, fully revised to reflect changes to the RCGP Membership examination, helps GPs to establish ways of thinking, talking and behaving in the consultation that are most likely to lead to good outcomes. It describes a simple three-part approach to the consultation’s essential task, which is to convert a patient’s problem into a plan acceptable to both patient and doctor. It combines reader-friendly explanations, helpful illustrations and examples from everyday practice. Consulting in a Nutshell will help GPs at every career stage – from medical student to SCA candidate to experienced practitioner – to analyse, develop and grow their personal consulting style. At a time of ongoing and profound change in primary care, it aims to ensure that seeing patients and having good consultations becomes and remains a source of satisfaction and fulfilment.
Consumer Affairs Specialist: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe Consumer Affairs Specialist Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: interviewing; evaluating conclusions in light of known facts; reading of meters, scales and gauges; understanding and interpreting tabular material; understanding and interpreting written material; and other related areas.