Describe the suggestions for classroom practice when basing ...

[haleyc112]

Describe the suggestions for classroom practice when basing instruction on social influences on learning and the process of knowledge construction in classrooms, and provide an example of each.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Of the following, which strategy for improving our students' problem solving abilities is Jim best applying by using case studies as the framework for teaching problem solving in business law?
 
  a. Present problems in real-world contexts.
  b. Develop students' expertise with worked examples.
  c. Capitalize on social interaction.
  d. Encourage sense making.

[HandsomeMarc]

Answer to Question 1

Suggestions for classroom practice include the following. (1) Provide students with experiences that promote deep understanding, high-quality representations of content. This means illustrating all topics with high-quality examples and other high-quality representations of content, such as showing young children a live lizard and a live snake to illustrate the concept reptile. (2) Connect content to the real world, such as finding the longitude and latitude of the students' school, or using equivalent fractions to determine how much pizza has been eaten. (3) Make interaction an integral part of instruction, such as developing lessons with questioning and using groupwork judiciously. (4) Teach for conceptual change, such as helping students revise their knowledge constructions to eliminate misconception.

Answer to Question 2

a