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Project Construct

Explore how children construct knowledge based on Piaget’s stages of development. Project Construct aims to foster autonomy in students and aligns with state and national standards. Encourage thinking, decision-making, and moral development in the classroom.

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Project Construct

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  1. Project Construct A Learner-Centered Approach to Teaching

  2. Developed under the direction of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in 1986.

  3. It’s anapproachto teachingbased on what we know about how children construct knowledge. Authentic Learning

  4. Jean Piaget

  5. Child Development Made Easy Children Think and Process Information Significantly Different Than an Adult Children Move Through Development at Their Own Pace

  6. Stages of Development • Sensorimotor Stage Birth- 2 years • Preoperational Stage 2 years-7 years • Concrete Operational Stage 7-11 years • Formal Operational Stage 12 and up

  7. Sensorimotor Stage • Knows the world through movement and sensations • Learns object permanence • Learns to separate people from objects • Learns that actions cause things to happen

  8. Preoperational Stage • Language Emerging • Egocentric • Learns through pretend play, but struggles with logic

  9. Concrete Operational Stage • Begins to think logically • Understand conservation • Thinking more organized • Develops friends • Struggles with abstract thinking

  10. Formal Operational Stage • Thinks abstractly • Thinks morally, philosophically, ethically, socially, politically • Deductive thinking • Can find multiple solutions

  11. Active Process • “I believe knowing an object means acting upon it,…” • “We are not passive recipients of knowledge, but actively involved in investigating and experimenting as we build understanding of how our world works….” Jean Piaget

  12. What Does All This Mean? We Can’t Change Development, BUT We Can Change the Quality of the Experiences That Children Receive The Quality of the Child’s Experiences determines how well and how thoroughly the wiring in the brain is complete

  13. Mystery Object

  14. #1 Principle Children have an intrinsic desire to make sense of the world.

  15. Slime

  16. #2 Principle Children actively construct knowledge and values by interacting with the physical and social worlds.

  17. The Story of Spilled Milk

  18. #3 Principle In their universal effort to understand the world, children’s thinking will contain predictable errors.

  19. #4 Principle Children’s development is an interactive andinterrelated process...

  20. #4 Principle ...and spans the Sociomoral, Cognitive, Representational, and Physical Development domains.

  21. The primary aim of the Project Construct approach is to help teachers foster the development of each child as an autonomous individual.

  22. think for oneself • decide between right and wrong • decide between truth and untruth • consider all relevant factors when making decisions • make decisions independently of reward and punishment Kamii, C. (1992). Autonomy as the aim of constructivist education: How can it be fostered? In D. G. Murphy & S. G. Goffin (Eds.), Understanding the possibilities: A curriculum guide for Project Construct (p. 9). Jefferson City, MO: Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

  23. Project Construct Classroom Learning Centers

  24. Project Construct is aligned with developmentally appropriate state and national standards.

  25. Story of Classroom A and B

  26. It’s all about Thinking Questions?

  27. Children Deserve the BestYou Can’t Rewind Childhood

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