Constructivism

A part of contructivism is accomodation and assimilation. I feel that assimilation is important because students can assimilate real life situations which gets them to use higher order thinking. In my classroom when I was teaching U.S. History, I would give students a part in history. For instance, The dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima. I would split the class into four groups (two for dropping the atom bomb and two against it.) The students would then have to gather all the history facts to persuade people to go with their idea. The class would then have a debate. By making the students debate, they had to come up with things on their own causing them to use higher order thinking. I would facilitate it so the students would stay on task and keep them in the right direction and of course correct their history if anything came up wrong. My students loved this and I think they got a lot out of it.