Constructivist Lesson Planning

Preparing a constructivist lesson plan isn’t an easy task as it may seem. It requires highly creative skills as well as detailed planning that will encounter any event that could occur during class. This planning that requires all of this preparation has its most effective outcomes on the students. It differs from several other types of planning because of the student centeredness and its high effectiveness and affectivity on the latter.

Hereunder is a detailed constructivist lesson plan.

Lesson Title: Interest

Instructional goals:

- -Teaching the student how to differentiate between the simple and the compound interest.

- Teaching the student to differentiate between annuities and interests.

- Teaching the student how to differentiate between constituting a capital and paying off a debt.

Objectives:

- Student will be able to tackle between the requirements of the instructional goals.

Content:

- Introduction of formulas and parameters.

- Calculations

- Applications in everyday life

Instructional Procedures

- The students will be divided into groups and given brochures of the same banking system.

- They will try to analyze the different kinds of interest rates offered on loans.

- They will try to analyze the different types of rates offered on deposits.

- They will try to formulate an inter-relationship amongst them.

- The teacher will guide an analysis process along with a banker that will process his knowledge to the students.

- The activity will finish by a short exercise that will show the difference between constituting a capital and paying off a debt.

Evaluation procedures:

- Each group will be asked to head to a bank in order to try to get some information regarding the interest rating.

- They will bring back an evaluation sheet from their interviewee.

- They will present the collected info to the class with demonstrations.

- They will perform a short test on the amount of knowledge acquired.

- They will be asked to formulate some kind of new loan and present it to the classroom.

As seen this type of planning requires much of work, planning and follow up. Despite its high qualities it is highly time consuming, which renders it unusable most of the time. But it is quite interesting and motivating for the students to introduce such plans at least three or four times during the semester in order to induce the qualities falling behind constructivist planning.