Week+5

//Due Nov 10// //Readings// //Postman and Weingartner, Chap. 2-3// //Lorch// //Smilowitz// //The video we viewed in class was an example of students being led on a path of discovery. By thinking, confronting, and re-examining, they were discovering - even creating - their own moral positions without having dictated by an authority figure. Discovery learning places students at the center of the process; they are the ones "discovering" knowldge and understanding as they progress.//

//The article by Mark Smilowitz describes one important aspect of// // discovery learning // //- the art of inquiry, or knowing how to ask questions. The setting and content is distinctly Orthodox, the approach is universal. More dramatic expressions of discovery learning are presented in the selections from Postman & Weingartner and in Steve Lorch's// // constructivist // //Schechter school. (//// Edu-babble alert! // // Constructivism ////is another name for discovery learning - it describes the process by which students construct their own understanding of the world.)//

//Describe how you might incorporate// // constructivist/discovery/inquiry learning // //into a Jewish studies classroom in which the content will play a significant role.//