When I look back on my learning experience after knowing the basic knowledge of the learning paradigms, I realize that two main paradigms were applied.
When I was in my first and second years in primary school, cognitive paradigms were applied by the majority of my teachers. When the teachers, especially math teachers, tried to introduce the new contents, they would simply state the definitions and explain them with plain words. Although the teachers tried some in-class games to make the learning process more interesting, I was not extremely fascinated about learning at school at that time. Math was my least favorite subject at that time because I thought math was about remembering numerous formulas and repeating complicated calculations.
However, nearly all my third-year primary school teachers preferred the constructivist paradigm. Taking my math teacher as an example, she would let us preview the knowledge the day before the class, and then assign an exercise to us at the beginning of the class. Then, she would give three students opportunities to write their own procedures on the blackboard and explain their own thoughts in front of the class. After that, she would let us spend about ten minutes representing and discussing the question. And at the end of the class, she would conclude our methods. Her different teaching method changed my attitude towards math because I loved presenting my own ideas about math questions to my classmates.
References
AITSL. [AITSL]. (2016, April 20). Engaging a Maths class [Video]. YouTube. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csR-Py99PZ4
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