EDUCATION 60
Facilitating Learner-Centered Teaching
Choose 1 - 2 principle(s) for every factor of the 14 Learner-Centered Principles and give techniques or
strategies to apply in the delivery of your subject matter.
Factors & Principles
Cognitive and Metacognitive Factors
 Construction of knowledge
Motivation and Affective Factors
 Motivational and emotional influences on
learning
Application (Techniques and Strategies)
As a secondary teacher, it is expected that the
students coming in my classroom walls had already
gained prior knowledge about what they will be able
to learn in my subject – may it be an overview or the
basic knowledge they must acquire to get by in my
subject.
As a skilled teacher, we shall be able to utilize
everything that is available to us, and one of those
are the child’s prior knowledge.
Maybe, before formally starting our discussion, I will
have a pre-assessment task where students will
answer a quiz or it could be just an oral recitation on
what they “think” my class will be all about, after
assessing the students’ answers I will start from
where they recalled learning from their previous
class.
Within the classroom walls, it is expected that there
will be diversity, and as a teacher we shall be
versatile in teaching, but having to adjust to an
individual’s preferences can be pretty tiring or a lot
of necessary work, that is why it is necessary to
observe and plan what a teacher is ought to do in
terms of giving appropriate teaching methods for
students who belong in different social class.
Students who belong in higher social class tends to
have a different perspective learning.
Take for example the necessity to spend financially in
terms of school fees or project. Since they raised to a
financially secured environment they tend to not
hold back when it comes to buying materials for the
beautification of their project. However, compared
to the students belonging in the lower class, they
tend to limit their financial capabilities and would
resort to their creativity and utilize what is available
around them.
As a teacher, to provide equity amongst students,
there shall be three options to facilitate their
learning.
Assuming that their class output is a diorama to
represent a volcanic eruption; One, to not allow the
students who belong in a higher social status to be in
a same group leaving the students belonging in a
lower social status with unstable financial resources
to struggle on how they will acquire a parring quality
of output. Two; is to higher the rate of creativity in
the given criteria of the project, and three, to limit
the amount that students will have to spend for the
quality of their project. This way, not only it will

Developmental and Social Factors
 Developmental influences on learning
Individual Differences Factors
 Standards and assessment
provide fair opportunity for everyone to show their
talents, but also for the students who will have to
relay on the creativity, this shall be a learning
experience for them.
This can be commonly applied if a teacher is
expected to teach an LSEN student or Learner with
Special Educational Needs. Such students need
special care, love and considerations when it comes
to these situations. You cannot expect a non-seeing
person to be able to read a normal book and expect
them to pass the quiz for the following day for such
students have this special kind of book that is written
in Braile.
There are different kind of students out there with
different disabilities in and disorders and we as
teachers are expected to teach even those students.
We also cannot just say to leave the teaching to SPED
teachers for they know how and what to teach to
LSEN students because there is this thing called Main
Streaming where fit LSEN students are marked to be
promoted to a high-level in a generic environment
for students for not only they will learn academically
for they are expected to learn how society works and
the first step to that is for them to be exposed in a
small spectrum of society where both the LSEN
student and the abled students are not expected to
act to the expense of the other.
To help the LSEN student to successfully be
promoted althroughout the school year I will spare a
special time and space for the LSEN student to adjust
in the new environment they are in.
Taking for example a mentally retarded student
within abled students, as teachers, we shall take a
closer look on how the LSEN students responds to
certain situations or observe the capacity they can
only understand and adjust the teaching method
according to their level but with an equal learning
opportunity for the rest of the students in class.
To keep the students developing althroughout their
learning days, we as teachers will also have to set
practical and appropriate high standards for them to
achieve, this will help them to learn that they can
foresee themselves out of the matter they are
currently facing.
Taking for example essay making in English one; it is
expected that grade 10 students cannot make a
argumentative where proper grammar and credible
sources are needed to support their claims in a
certain topic. However, Senior High School students
especially to those taking HUMSS strand, they are
built and trained to be well-rounded in this kind of
area, so as a teacher we shall set the boundaries
higher than their previous year level. First, we will
introduce them to the basics of doing argumentative,
and next is to be strict on the proper grammar, right
 siting of sources within the essay and on the
reference list, to expect the student t have a clean
and legible output, and many more.

Because in this, it will be engraved in their minds

that the moment they will reach college where they
are now are expected to do research paper with the
needs of proper use of citing and grammar, it will be
not hard or as confusing to them anymore since they
had been already introduced the standards of a
proper research paper.

Prepared by:

IBARRA, Allyza
PALER, Kyla
PEKITPEKIT, Danna Faith
LOTERO, Jane Claudy
JOSOL, Jane