BENEFIT OF STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING TECHNIQUES

1. Permits opportunities to connect the content to real life. ACTIVE LEARNING

2. Provide opportunities for higher order thinking as opposed to passive listening. Students solve problems, answer questions, formulate questions of their own,
discusses, explain, debate, or brainstorm during class.
3. Promotes greater students-faculty and student-student interaction.
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
4. Increases student’s retention.
Students work in teams on problems and projects under conditions that assure both
TEACHER-CENTERED vs. STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING positive interdependence and individual accountability.
ELEMENTS TEACHER-CENTERED STUDENT-CENTERED INDUCTIVE TEACHING & LEARNING
KNOWLEDGE transmitted from constructed by Students are first presented with challenges (questions or problems) and learn the
instruction students course material in the context of addressing the challenges.
STUDENTS’ Passive active
PARTICIPATION OTHER METHODS TOOLBOX
ROLE OF LECTURER leader/authority facilitator/partner in
learning Small group work Games
ROLE OF few tests, mainly for many tests, for ongoing
Classroom discussion Projects
ASSESSMENT grading feedback
EMPHASIS learning correct answers developing deeper Presentation Debates
understanding
ASSESSMENT one-dimensional testing multidimensional testing Role play Case study
METHOD
FOUR SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF LEARNER-CENTERED
ACADEMIC competitive, collaborative, supportive
CULTURE individualistic 1. Involving students in Firsthand Learning

2. Giving students Choices about and Control of their learning

 Learner-centered teaching does not employ a single teaching method.
Emphasizes a variety of methods that shift the role of the Teachers from givers of 3. Teaching students Lifelong Learning Skill
information to facilitators of student learning.
4. Promoting the relevance of learner Centered Teaching