Constructivism movement in education in the 1990's

[Fruiteloop]

The basic theory:

Kids make up their own ways of learning and "construct" knowledge by themselves.
Teaching kids requires facilitating exploration of different things so they can discover the principles them.

In Reality:

Governments create ambiguous goals that did not make clear what teachers should do to help kids learn.

Kids do not understand basic concept because they need to be presented in proper instructions based on age of how kids learn and develop.
What I experienced was that they just gave me math work sheets and no instructions and just try really hard and many times to you get answers right.

Since I am in the USA: Lower scores after the movement by "no child left behind act" took away money from poor schools punishing them for underperformance. This created greater inequality and rich schools/parents did better.

Good ways to learn as a kid:

Teachers should know the Evidence on how kids actually learn with cognitive science.
Often teachers had to look at how to do this by themselves because of how they were trained as teachers and personal experience.

Scaffolding, proper instruction connecting what you know to new knowledge through retrieval and cognitive load taken into consideration.

 

[aeon]

Lower scores after the movement by "no child left behind act" took away money from poor schools punishing them for underperformance. This created greater inequality and rich schools/parents did better.

The only war is class war.

Cheers,
Ian

 

[Wyote]

Every class I ever took where the teacher properly understood that I was one of the weird ones, I excelled in
Every class I ever took where the teacher rigidly stuck to their own cookie cutter methods, I did less gooder in

 

[StarryEyedDreamer]

Systemic marginalization against disabled people everywhere is reflected in how schools fail to accommodate students with disabilities properly. They either pretend to accommodate students or are more honest about discrimination. Neurodivergent students are no exception, either. As a person with disabilities, I never liked any school. My experience from being exploited made me not want children at all. It's a class war where children are trained to abuse this planet for profit with self-destructive working conditions. Pills are band aids considering people's health inevitably deteriorates in this unhealthy environment.

 

[Wyote]

Systemic marginalization against disabled people everywhere is reflected in how schools fail to accommodate students with disabilities properly.

When I was first entering school, accommodations for the disabled was like a new concept lmaoo
Sure it technically got going in the 70s, but it wasn't until the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act that things actually started to change in meaningful ways
So I was a lab rat in that sense, which is funny
Fortunately I went to schools that were some of the best in the country as far as their programs for the disabled
Most of the country even today is pretty abysmal as far as that goes

Continuing education after traditional schooling is a whole other animal as well
At least the US tries to make accommodations, which is a lot more than you can say for most other countries
Anyway, I won't get on my soapbox about all this, as I'll probably never shut up
But I get it, I feel ya

 

[StarryEyedDreamer]

When I was first entering school, accommodations for the disabled was like a new concept lmaoo
Sure it technically got going in the 70s, but it wasn't until the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act that things actually started to change in meaningful ways
So I was a lab rat in that sense, which is funny
Fortunately I went to schools that were some of the best in the country as far as their programs for the disabled
Most of the country even today is pretty abysmal as far as that goes

Continuing education after traditional schooling is a whole other animal as well
At least the US tries to make accommodations, which is a lot more than you can say for most other countries
Anyway, I won't get on my soapbox about all this, as I'll probably never shut up
But I get it, I feel ya

The United HAD a time of improving accommodations for disabled people. But the United States has been collapsing for decades with rising political corruption when a person's quality of life declines if they're not rich. More resources have become unaccommodatingly gatekept from disabled people if they're not rich in the United States. I could go on my soapbox about class war against disabled people's quality of life forever in theory. But that's a lot of yapping. XD