Why traditional classrooms should be transformed?

Traditional classroom teaching is a kind of “memory teaching”. In this way, the role of the teacher is to instill information into the student, and the role of the student is to be accepted, to memorize the information, and to follow the knowledge.

The teacher’s “teaching” behavior replaces the student “learning” activity. In the traditional classroom, the teacher is the ruler, the manipulator, the student is the ruled and manipulated person. In my opinion, a classroom like this is almost a “soul slaughterhouse” without vitality and spirituality. Teaching is an effort to help people grow and teachers should create a learning environment for students constructing knowledge instead of the above mentioned. The purpose of constructivism teaching theory is to promote student learning, which allows students to continuously develop an understanding of knowledge and also to train students’ thinking skills. Constructivism teaching has become a developmental teaching rather than an adaptive teaching. (Blumenfeld, 1991) Therefore, we can no longer be tied to traditional teaching, the transformation of traditional classrooms is important.

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The picture shows the Chinese students studying cooperatively. In China, the classroom is also changing from a “teacher-centered” approach, but this transition has not yet been fully realized, which can be felt during class in the classroom. However, it should be acknowledged that the new way of learning (student-centered) is very common in many primary and secondary schools, and students’ self-reflection in the classroom has gradually increased, this is exactly what the constructivist class has shown. When teachers are no longer tied to the students’ thinking, the classroom has hope.

References：

Blumenfeld, P. C., Soloway, E., Marx, R. W., Krajcik, J. S., Guzdial, M., & Palincsar, A. (1991). Motivating project-based learning: Sustaining the doing, supporting the learning. Educational psychologist, 26(3-4), 369-398.