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EDUC 4 GROUP 1 Creating A Learner Centered Classroom and Teaching Students How To Learn

This document discusses creating a learner-centered classroom. It explains that learner-centered classrooms improve teacher-student relationships and increase student motivation and performance. The document recommends that teachers act as facilitators rather than just content providers, and encourage student collaboration, exploration, and responsibility for their own learning. It also provides seven specific techniques for incorporating student-centered approaches: allowing student choice, using open-ended questions, explicit instruction, encouraging collaboration and group work, reflection, self-paced assignments, and community involvement.

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EDUC 4 GROUP 1 Creating A Learner Centered Classroom and Teaching Students How To Learn

This document discusses creating a learner-centered classroom. It explains that learner-centered classrooms improve teacher-student relationships and increase student motivation and performance. The document recommends that teachers act as facilitators rather than just content providers, and encourage student collaboration, exploration, and responsibility for their own learning. It also provides seven specific techniques for incorporating student-centered approaches: allowing student choice, using open-ended questions, explicit instruction, encouraging collaboration and group work, reflection, self-paced assignments, and community involvement.

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Prof.

Ed- Section C
EDUC 4- FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING

Topic: Creating a Learner-centered classroom and Teaching students


how to learn

Reporters:
Vanessa Mae Salauro
Queenie Quintero
Jenelyn Pacomios

What is the importance of learner-centered classroom?


Learner-centered classrooms can have improved teacher-student
relationships. Students in learner-centered classrooms have increased intrinsic
motivation to learn and better academic performance.

How do you create a learner-centered classroom?


Teachers can create a learner-centered classroom by learning to be a
facilitator rather than content dispensers. By facilitating student collaboration and
exploration, students will learn to be independent of the teacher and be
responsible for what they learn.

Student centered teaching shifts the focus from the teacher to the student. It
encourages active participation on the part of the students and requires that they
monitor their own thinking. Students are also expected to not only be conscious
of their learning but to also assume responsibility. Student motivation generally
increases with student centered learning, as does student achievement and
overall satisfaction with the school experience.

There are many ways to incorporate student centered techniques into


classroom resources and lessons:

1. Allow for student choice and autonomy


This might mean providing project, classroom and homework assignment
options, as well as allowing students to design their own seating arrangements.
Providing more types of question types in assessments also gives students the
chance to make their own choices. Finally, encourage teachers to give the
students a few minutes of downtime to use as they’d like (within reason of
course).
2. Use open-ended questioning techniques
This practice encourages critical and creative thinking and enhances
problem-solving skills. Open-ended questioning encourages clear communication
and provides students with reassurance that their thoughts and ideas matter.

3. Engage in explicit instruction


Explicit instruction moves away from the skill and drill attitude of teaching.
It is a much more direct and engaging method of instruction that pulls the
students right into the heart of the lesson. Students are active participants in
what is going on, rather than bystanders and onlookers.

4. Encourage student collaboration and group projects


When students work with each other they are learning a great deal more
than just the lesson content. They are gaining an appreciation for the diversity
that exists in our schools and communities. They are also learning to have respect
for what may sometimes be very differing points of view. And finally, they are
able to bounce their ideas back and forth with each other, creating a much
greater opportunity to grow these ideas into something great.

5. Encourage student reflection


Student reflection allows students to slow things down a bit and take a step
back to analyze things. It also allows time for their brains to process what they
have been learning. Reflection creates space and time for individual and group
growth.

6. Create individual self-paced assignments


All students don’t work at the same speed and assignments should reflect
this. Allowing students to move through material at a rate that best fits their
learning styles and needs makes it more likely that they will gain deeper
understanding of the subject matter.

7. Get the students involved in community-based activities and service-learning


projects
This helps students to see their important role in the larger world. They are
given the chance to learn how valuable and fulfilling it can be to give back to
others. Learning becomes more organic and less rigid. Students have the
opportunity to see firsthand that learning opportunities surround us everywhere
where we go.

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