FACILITATING

LEARNER-CENTERED
TEACHING

Prof. Teresita Z. Bautista

Facilitator
 COURSE OBJECTIVES
Develop critical thinking in the analysis of different life
situations involving the teaching - learning process of an
individual;
 
Develop the meta cognitive skill right at the beginning of
the course to enable him/her to employ the same and get
most from every unit.
 
Apply strategies and techniques to help learners develop
reasoning skills, concepts, and problem-solving process;
 
 COURSE OBJECTIVES
Apply the basic concepts, theories, and principles of
teaching through appropriate selection of materials and the
perceptive use of instructional materials;
 
Reflect on teacher’s accountability to the learners’
performance and achievement and to the teacher’s total
involvement in the teaching profession;
 
Conduct library or on-line research on selected topics and
write reflective paper on teachers’ learner-centered practices
that promote fairness, respect and caring attitude in the
classroom;
 
 COURSE OBJECTIVES
  Use various educational tools and technologies in day-to-day
lesson to facilitate learning;
 
Use a wide-range of teaching knowledge and skills in
facilitating diverse learners in a diverse classroom
environment;
 
Apply ethical standards on situations involving teacher’s
relationships with different learners; and
 
Establish positive and effective relationship with
learners.
“DEVELOP
PASSION
FOR
LEARNING.
IF YOU DO,
YOU WILL
NEVER
CEASE TO
GROW”
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ENCOURAGES CREATES

TEACHER

MONITORS SUPPORTS

ASSESSES
 THE TEACHER AND
THE PHILOSOPHICAL HERITAGE
“Teachers … Our thoughts, values, and actions are somehow shaped by events and by
are the most
people with whom we come in contact. We turn, we help shape the
responsible
and
society-its events, its people, and its destiny.
important
member of We are heirs to a rich Philosophical heritage. Passed on to us are a
society number of philosophies of various thinkers who reflected o life and
because their occupied themselves searching for answers to questions about human
professional existence.
efforts affect
thee fate of “To Philosophize is so essentially human – and in a sense to philosophize
the earth” means living a truly human life – Josef Pieper

Helen Caldicott

From: Corpuz, Brenda B. The Teaching Profession, 3rd ed, 2015.

 THE TEACHER AND
THE PHILOSOPHICAL HERITAGE

Here are some Educational Philosophies that

are related to Learner-Centered Teaching:

 Essentialism
 Progressivism
 Perennialism
 Existentialism
 Humanism
 Constructivism
 Behaviorism
 PHILOSOPHIES OF EDUCATION

 Essentialism – “Traditional or Back to basic “approach

 Progressivism – Promotes the need to “learn by doing”
 Perennialism – Transferring of knowledge, skills and
values from older generations to the younger ones.
 “ Existentialism-create our own essence by making our own
personal choices.
 Humanism-focuses on human freedom, dignity, and
potential
 Constructivism-”equates learning with creating meaning
from experience”
 Behaviorism-focuses on conditioning student behavior with
various types of behavior reinforcements and consequences
called operant conditioning.