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Experiential and Contextualized Learning

The document discusses experiential and contextualized learning strategies that can be used in teaching social studies in intermediate grades. Experiential learning involves learning through hands-on experiences and reflection. Contextualized learning explores bringing learning into different contexts to make it more meaningful and relevant to students.

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Experiential and Contextualized Learning

The document discusses experiential and contextualized learning strategies that can be used in teaching social studies in intermediate grades. Experiential learning involves learning through hands-on experiences and reflection. Contextualized learning explores bringing learning into different contexts to make it more meaningful and relevant to students.

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Lesson 4:

LEARNING STRATEGIES USE


IN TEACHING SOCIAL
STUDIES IN
INTERMEDIATE GRADE
Experiential and
Contextualized
Learning
Experiential
Learning
Experiential Learning
 Experiential Learning is the process of learning
by doing. By engaging students in hands-on
experiences and reflection, they are better able
to connect theories and knowledge learned in
the classroom to real-world situations.
Experiential Learning
 Experiential learning is the process of learning through
experience, and is more specifically defined as “learning
through reflection on doing”. Hands-on learning can be a
form of experiential learning, but does not necessarily
involve students reflecting on their product. Experiential
learning is distinct from rote or didactic learning, in
which the learner plays a comparatively passive role.
● Experiential learning focuses on the learning
process for the individual. One example of
experiential learning is going to the zoo and
learning through observation and interaction with
the zoo environment, as opposed to reading about
animals from a book. Thus, one makes discoveries
and experiments with knowledge firsthand, instead
of hearing or readings about others’ experiences.
● Experiential learning has significant teaching
advantages. Peter Senge, author of The Fifth
Discipline (1990), states that teaching is of utmost
importance to motivate people. Learning only has
good effects when learners have the desire to
absorb the knowledge. Therefore, experiential
learning requires the showing of directions for
learners.
When students participate in experiential
education opportunities, they gain:

• A better understanding of course material


• A broader view of the world and an appreciation of
community
• Insight into their own skills, interests, passions, and
values
• Opportunities to collaborate with diverse
organizations and people
• Positive professional practices and skill sets
• The gratification of assisting in meeting community
needs
• Self-confidence and leadership skills
“Experience is
the best teacher"
A proverb that means that most wisdom is
gained through actual real-life
experience rather than through books or
school. No matter how much we try and
prepare and study for something, we often
learn so much more when we actually
experience it.
“Experience is not the
best teacher; evaluated
experience is the best
teacher”
Experience is not the best teacher EVALUATED experience
is the best teacher. Because if you don’t evaluate your past
experience, failure and mistakes you tend to make mistakes
over and over again. You just have to be humble enough to
learn from your mistakes and ask the right people who’ve
already been there than that. Learn from their experiences, get
their wisdom and avoid the same mistakes that they have
made in the past.
Contextualized
Learning
Contextualized Learning
The principle of “Contextual learning” explores how bringing
learning into context can make the experience more meaningful
to students. As part of the process of exploring content across
different contexts and seeing how it is relevant, a contextualized
learning experience prepares students for life outside the
classroom. Students start to conceptualize how the knowledge
they have gained during their studies is relevant to their intended
profession, the workplace, other aspects of life, and the world
more broadly.
Contextualizing learning in this way allows a
more seamless transition from higher education to
the world of work. For example, conducting and
designing experiments with the scientific method
and enquiry helps science students think critically
about assumptions of knowledge that are pervasive
in society
Putting learning in context can make
the learning experience more engaging
and internally motivating for the student.
This in turn can connect the learning
experience more closely to life outside
the classroom, thus making it relevant
and memorable and reducing difficulty
when applying new concepts to
unfamiliar situations
Authentic learning and authentic assessment are
common approaches used to place learning in the
professional context. In these approaches, the learning
framework draws on real-world tasks, situations and
problems. In doing so, learning and assessment can
authentically reflect the world of work and show how
the student may be expected to transfer their
knowledge and skills to the discipline and the
professional context.
Thank You!
Presented by:
Christian Mark Mangubat
Franco Gorias

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