There are said to be five categories of instructional strategies used by instructors to create learning environments and to specify the nature of the activity in which the instructor and learner will be involved during the lesson.
"The last decades of research in human learning have presented new insights into the ways that learners are active in constructing their own understanding. Constructivist learning theories have shown the limitations of viewing 'learning' as something we can 'give' to students that they will 'receive' or learn in exactly the same form, at exactly the given time.”
Saskatchewan Education, 2001. Retrieved from September 7, 2014 Classroom Curriculum Connections: A Teacher's Handbook for Personal-Professional Growth (p. 30).
"The last decades of research in human learning have presented new insights into the ways that learners are active in constructing their own understanding. Constructivist learning theories have shown the limitations of viewing 'learning' as something we can 'give' to students that they will 'receive' or learn in exactly the same form, at exactly the given time.”
Saskatchewan Education, 2001. Retrieved from September 7, 2014 Classroom Curriculum Connections: A Teacher's Handbook for Personal-Professional Growth (p. 30).