Constructivist Learning Design: Key Questions for Teaching to Standards

by George W. Gagnon Jr., Michelle Collay, Richard A. Schmuck (Foreword by)

Use the Constructivist Learning Design (CLD) six-step planning framework to engage students in constructivist learning events that meet standards-based outcomes.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published December 14, 2005

Reviews

[Issac Silberstein]

Mad boring, not research-based, and a lot of theoretical back and forth and waxing poetic about a constructivist approach to the classroom. Really the kind of junk they give out to college students in a foundations of education/curriculum course- and that nobody really reads.

[Brian]

This book takes what I already knew about Constructivism and gives it a more actionable angle. While my training in math instruction had a Constructivist focus, my English instruction training was not as focused or at least not as explicit about this focus. This text gives me a template to follow to create a Constructivist learning design (CLD) to use with my students in any class. The focus on student exhibits as a means to display and reveal learning was different for me, but I appreciate the way the authors approach that idea and I have become more able to see why it's important.