Constructivism in Practice

I think that forming and testing hypotheses is a way that our students can become higher level thinkers, and that goes hand in hand with Constructivism. We have to being higher level thinkers to be able to form a hypothesis. To come up with an educated guess as to an outcome makes us think at a higher level. We have to think about possible outcomes, which make sense and which don't. After coming up with a hypothesis we have to be able to test it. During the testing process our students will generate data which will either prove or disprove their original hypothesis. While looking at the data our students have collected they have to be able extract which is good and bad data. There is a lot of higher level thinking going on during this whole process. Our students have to look at various solutions or reasons to a problem that is proposed by the class or the teacher. When we have our students involved with the decision making process our students become higher level thinkers which is constructivism in practice.