EJ477531
EA529035
Title: Teaching for Understanding in German Schools.Author(s): Zahorik, John A.; Dichanz, Horst
Source: Educational Leadership, v51 n5 p75-77 Feb 1994
Publication Date: 1994
ISSN: 0013-1784
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUN1994
Having never
embraced behaviorism and its emphasis on fragmented knowledge, direct
instruction, and reinforcement contingencies, German schools have
fostered a constructivist learning perspective for quite some time.
German students are helped to make connections that develop and
strengthen their internal knowledge structures and build their metacognitive
capacity through three important practices: multiyear grouping,
community-based education, and responsive teaching. (MLH)
Descriptors: Behaviorism; *Constructivism (Learning); *Cooperative
Learning; Elementary Education; Heterogeneous Grouping; *Multigraded
Classes; *Student Centered Curriculum
Identifiers: *Community Based Education; *Germany; Responsive Teaching;
Scaffolding
