Five E's

The 5 E model contains the following: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. To be able to first engage students, teachers must initiate students's prior knowledge and activate old connections in order to make new knowledge and new connections. As soon as the students have been engaged, we need to move on to the Exploration part of the model. As teachers, we will be able to present our students to work directly and actively with the materials or topic of discussion. This allows students to be able to interpret their knowledge about what the objective is about, which in turn is the explain portion of this model. After this stage is successful, teachers need to move on to the elaboration students will be exploring if their knowledge of previous thought preconceptions has been tested and is tried and true, or if they have made new connections that could possibly change their views. Evaluate is the last part of the model, this is where the teacher will assess the students knowledge and gauge to see if they have learned anything new in this process. This model is essential for instruction in the classroom because it allows an environment that fosters students in each stage. These points to a Constructivist theory where previous knowledge is scaffold and is built upon in order to make newer connections. It is up to the teacher to facilitate the constructivistic learning process. The structure of the learning environment should promote opportunities and events that encourage and support the building of understanding.