Estrategias para un aprendizaje significativo-constructivista

Abstract

Teachers usually worry almost exclusively about what and how to teach; but, generally, they usually ignore learning from the students when considering that it is their responsibility. Nowadays an alternative focus is requested, in which we pay attention to the learning process, because it is so important what students memorize as well as the way in which they memorize. We must try to guide them in the learning process (how to learn) so that they will be able to learn for themselves («to learn how to learn» and «to learn how to think»). It is evident the necessity of learning strategies, in the same way repetitive learning should be abandoned to get significant (meaningful) learning. In a constructivist pattern the teacher is mediator of learning in two senses: in the first place, guiding and structuring learning of common agreement with the student and, in the second place, building him and offering him significant meaningful ) material. We have brought the conceptual maps and V diagrams. With the use of these two instruments, the teacher doesn't only pay attention to what to learn (content), but also to how to learn ( process); because, if he/she directs their students how they should learn, aided by these tools, they will be taken to the attainment of something so wanted as it is «learning how to learn.»