LESSON 1

Understanding Learner-Centered Teaching

Suggested Timeframe: 4.5 hours
What does learner-centered mean?
- Student-centered learning is a teaching and learning style in which the instructor
focuses on each individual learner and each of their needs rather than the entire
curriculum, and instruction shifts from a teacher-centered to a student-centered
approach. UNDERSTAND
This lesson is an introductory lesson on learner-centered teaching and its
underlying principles. This will walk you through understanding what is learner-centered
teaching. In this lesson, you are expected to:
• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of learner-centered teaching. Significant
culminating performance task and success indicators: At the end of the lesson, you
should be able to develop a graphic organizer and write a one paragraph descriptive
essay to explain your ideas and insights on what learner centered teaching is.

Performance Task Success Indicators

Develop a graphic organizer and write Explain ideas and insights on what
a one-paragraph descriptive essay on learner centered teaching is.
what learner-centered teaching is. The graphic organizer should be
presented with a title. It should provide
correct information based on multiple
sources and should be summarized to
communicate and support ideas about
learner-centered teaching.
The one-paragraph descriptive essay
should explain the organizer and
provide an analysis of the different
concepts/ideas presented.
a teaching EXPLANATION: assisting
technique that Performance Task students in
prioritizes the taking charge of their education
learner.
redirect
attention away
from the teacher and toward the
pupils

The Learner
Centered
Teaching
developing understanding

You may boost each student's motivation to stay involved in the learning process
by developing a learner-centered atmosphere. This is especially true in the upper
grades, as pupils' motivation to learn is increasingly influenced by personal interests
and subjects. You've probably heard students say something similar. Autonomy is
promoted through learner-centered instruction. While this kind of instruction can be
used in any grade, higher grades focus a larger emphasis on assisting students in their
transition from dependent student to independent adult. Learner-centered education
accomplishes this goal by allowing students to direct their own learning while still having
a teacher available to assist when necessary.
Another benefit of learner-centered training is that it accommodates students'
various learning styles. When a student is in charge of their own learning, the learning
process will naturally match their needs. A learner-centered educational environment
also boosts social engagement. Students acquire skills that will benefit them throughout
their lives. Socially, through peer collaboration and teacher engagement. Learning has
been characterized as a form of social interaction. Learner-Centered Teaching
refocuses the action away from the teacher and toward the students; it is a method of
instruction that places the student at the center of the process. According to research,
pupils who are socially engaged rather than passive consumers of information gain
understanding and take action.

PREPARE
What do you know about learner-centered teaching?
- Learner-centered education gets students involved in the difficult and messy process of
learning. Teachers that give their students some control over their education inspire and
empower them. Students are encouraged to reflect on what they're learning and how
they're learning it in learner-centered classrooms.

To prepare you for the lesson, you have to accomplish the following tasks:
TASK 1:
You have to come up with your own creative or unique concept tree. Inside the box
below, draw your own concept tree. Be creative. There are no hard and fast rules on
how you should design your tree. Make it unique. On the trunk, write ―Learner
centered Teaching.‖ On the leaves and branches, write words to describe your own
idea about learner-centered teaching. Share the output with your classmates.

Share ideas

instructional methodology

Critical thinking
Learning process
 knowledge

collaboration Problem solving

Learner-Centered Teaching
TASK 2:
You need to view at least two educational videos about learner-centered
teaching. Take note of the important ideas or insights you learned after watching them.
Write them down on MY NOTES so you will not forget them. You are expected to do
this before the discussion, analysis, and evaluation when you meet the course facilitator
face-to-face or in your virtual classroom.

MY NOTES:
Engagement: Video learning has been found to have positive effects on a variety of
levels, including greater motivation and deeper learning, as well as influencing students'
abilities to organize dialogues and detect problems.
Effectiveness: Educators can employ video learning to create time and space for active
learning on both sides of the classroom. Once a video has been generated, it may be
reused and updated as needed, freeing up classroom time for live discussions and
student interaction.

Authenticity: Without ever being in the same room, video engages both the student and
the educator in a one-on-one relationship. According to a convincing 2016 study by the
Online Learning Consortium, video helps educators create and foster meaningful
relationships with students.

Inspired Thinking: The use of visual and aural cues aids in the comprehension and
retention of new information. According to Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey,
one minute of video is equivalent to 1.8 million printed words. Students are pushed to
think critically when confronted with complex content when video is used in the
classroom.

Video For All: By allowing both general and special education teachers to teach pupils
at their own pace, video can help close the gap in instruction. Students can rewatch a
video as many times as they need to in order to obtain and remember information. Deaf
students, for example, can read the movie thanks to captions.

LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZq36LLwcCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCI9JY3I3U

Guided by your list of ideas and insights learned and based on what you viewed and
listened to, draw a visual representation of learner-centered teaching in the box provided
below.

Visual Representation of My Insights and Ideas

A teacher analyses students' understanding needs, defines particular learning

targets, designs teaching and memorizing strategies, implements a work plan, and
evaluates the instruction's results. Teaching is the act of paying attention to people's
needs, experiences, and feelings while interfering so that they can learn certain things.
Learning should be fun and worthwhile. This treatment would take place as soon as
possible. As a result, the procedures are nearly interchangeable. The act of instructing
or guiding someone else is known as teaching. Adolescents will direct society once they
reach maturity, therefore the teaching-learning process is crucial in developing them into
better citizens of the country. This process describes the means through which an
individual desires to develop the techniques, skills, proficiency, attitude, integrity, and
appreciation required to thrive in the information age. As a result, teaching-learning is a
process that results in behavioral changes as a result of occurrence.

Complete the following sentences:

After viewing two videos on Learner-centered teaching,
1. I realize that teaching conveys the teaching-learning process, and the teaching
process entails the establishment of an environment in which learners can
interact and learn how to learn.
2. I felt that the method of imparting knowledge, skills, and developing attitudes,
values, and a sense of the natural world through teaching and learning.
Educators have attempted to assess the learning process in terms of individual
and community resources.
3. I needed to know more knowledge about the learner and teaching process.

Read this short write-up to add more information to what you already learned from
various sources.
What Is Learner-Centered Teaching?
Teaching is a collaborative endeavor. The teacher facilitates learning, while the
students are active participants in the process. As a learning facilitator, the instructor
offers students a variety of opportunities to improve their knowledge, abilities, and
attitudes while stressing 21st-century skills such as teamwork, communication, critical
thinking and problem solving, and creative thinking and innovation.
In a nutshell, the concepts of learner-centered teaching can be summed up in the
acronym I CARED.
I-Interactive
Innovative
Interdisciplinary
C – Collaborative
Contextualized
A – Active
Authentic
R- Responsive
Relevant
E-Exploratory
Experiential
D- Developmentally appropriate

As learning in the stages, facilitators, classroom. Needs, teachers These skills,

activities abilities, must creatively should be in the contexts of learner’s interests,
feelings, cultures, lives, and experiences. As a result, learners will become active
participants in the classroom who can apply what they have learned to solve real
problems. Problems.

DEVELOP
Answer the following questions to check whether you have acquired ideas from different
sources on learner-centered teaching.
1. What is learner-centered teaching?
- Learner-centered instruction includes students in the messy and arduous
process of learning. By allowing students to have some control over their
learning, teaching motivates and empowers them. In learner-centered
classrooms, students are encouraged to think about what they're learning and
how they're learning it.
2. What definition can you give to define learner-centered teaching? Explain your
answer.
- Learner-centered instruction includes explicit skill instruction. Learner-centered
teachers teach students how to think, solve problems, evaluate evidence,
investigate arguments, and formulate hypotheses—all of the core learning
abilities required to master the discipline's curriculum.
APPLY
Answer the following questions:
1. Why should you be an advocate of learner-centered teaching?
- Learner-centered psychological principles provide a foundation for creating and
implementing novel educational designs. These concepts emphasize learning
and learners' active and reflective natures.
2. When you become a teacher, would you consider learner-centered teaching?
Why? Defend your answer.
- Learner-centered education assists students in developing skills that will better
prepare them for future employment. Teachers can be taught in this method so
that they can put the concepts into practice and provide a better learning
environment for their students.
3. Down the Memory Lane. Try to remember how your preschool to college teachers
taught you. Did your teachers utilize learner-centered teaching and learning? If
yes, how did he/she do it?
- Instructors learn best by researching, doing, and reflecting; cooperating with
other teachers; observing students and their work attentively; and communicating
what they see.

TRANSFER
Plan a short role-play with your group members on the importance of learner centered
teaching.

EVALUATE
1. Come up with a graphic organizer that will describe what you have learned about
learner-centered teaching. Write a one-paragraph descriptive essay to explain the
organizer you prepared.
2. Evaluate your own graphic organizer using the four-point scale rubric below. After self
evaluation, let your peers evaluate your graphic organizer using the same rubric. Use a
pencil to write a tentative rating. Then, discuss with your peers your strengths and
weaknesses based on the self- and peer-assessment conducted.

Criteria 4 3 2 1
(Distinguished) (Proficient) (Basic) (Unacceptable)
Content - All ideas and - Most ideas - Some ideas - Ideas and
Accuracy thoughts are and thoughts and thoughts thoughts are
correct and are correct are correct incorrect and
insightful and and not insightful.
- The learners insightful. insightful. - No reference
provided an - For the -The is made to
accurate most part, explanations literature or
explanation of the learners of key theory. There
key concepts, provided concepts is little or no
drawing upon accurate and are evidence of
relevant complete incomplete valid research.
literature, explanatio or inaccurate
insightful ns of and taken
key from some
concepts, references
drawing or sources.
upon
relevant
literature.

Organization - It is extremely - It is -It is It is poorly

well organized. generally somewhat organized. It
-The well organized. does not
organization organized. -The clearly show
reveals -The organization understanding
important organization demonstrat of the
connections reveals es minimal connections
between ideas some understandin between the
and connection g of the ideas and
demonstrates s connections insights.
a thorough between between the
analysis of ideas. ideas and
content. insights.
 Presentation Appealing; Clear and Lacks clarity; Not legible;
clear; graphic legible some words difficult to
elements are are hard to understand
carefully read
drawn; worlds
clearly written

Total points

Learner -
Centered Teaching

A instead of the transfer of. It way they acquire it (This

deals with the balance of idea is also seen in
teaching and learning Personalized is another
power term for it.
Student-centered The teacher's role is well
education provides known.
students to choose lecturer in a classroom,
between two options presenting
what they learn and how providing information to
they learn it kids who are
method of teaching that expecting to get the
focuses on information passively
on the students and their being presented with
growth information

The instructor takes on the role of a

classroom speaker in the more
classic or conventional approach to
teacher-centered learning,
presenting content to students who are expected to passively
absorb it. In student-centered learning, the teacher continues to be
the classroom authority figure, but he or she takes on the role of
coach or facilitator as students become more engaged and collaborative in their own
learning.
REFLECT
Answer the following questions after reflecting on the different learning experiences for
this lesson.
1. What were your concepts about learner-centered teaching? How did you
conceptualize it?
- In a learner-centered approach, students are active agents. They bring their own
knowledge, experiences, education, and perspectives to the table, all of which
influence how they learn and assimilate new information. It differs from the
traditional instructor-centered approach.
2. Were your concepts/insights different from others?
- Because this is my interpretation of what it means to teach.
3. How important is it for a future teacher to acquire a deep understanding of learner
centered teaching?
- Learner-centered education helps students build skills that will better equip them
for future jobs. Teachers can be taught how to use this strategy to help their
students study more effectively.
4. What do you intend to do with what you have learned of learner-centered
teaching? - In learner-centered teaching strategies, the focus of activity transfers
from the teacher to the pupils. One of these methods is active learning, which
involves students solving problems, answering questions, forming their own
questions, discussing, explaining, debating, or brainstorming during class.

SUSTAIN
Form groups of four. With your fellow members, choose one from the two tasks to
further enrich and strengthen your knowledge and attitude toward learner-centered
teaching. 1. Go to the library or search the Internet for some professional readings or
articles related to learner-centered teaching. Download the article. Acknowledge the
sources. Summarize the important insights you learned from the article.
Student Perceptions of Learner-Centered Teaching
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ888411.pdf
Indeed, adopting a learner-centered perspective, with its emphasis on trusting
students and loosening our grip on content-driven lectures, is challenging. It requires
students and professors alike to embrace its inherent contradictions and paradoxes,
including being both a facilitator and an evaluator and being both a learner and a teacher
(Robertson, 2005). At times, learner-centered teaching demands us to join the students
on their learning journey while simultaneously requiring us to grade their work and
evaluate their performance. The degree to which we can live with these tensions is
affected not only by our teaching orientation, but also where we are in our own
teaching/learning journey and how well we orient students to our new paradigm
(Daley,2003; Mezeske, 2004). As Ramsey and Fitzgibbons (2005) thoughtfully suggest,
learner-centered teaching requires us to move along a continuum beyond “doing
something to students” (teaching) to “doing something with students” (teaching and
learning) to “being with students” (learning). Even more challenging is moving
seamlessly back and forth along this continuum within single class periods, intuitively
recognizing what learners need from us in the moment. Although the learner-centered
paradigm has become the new buzzword in the field, empirical support is needed to
move the paradigm from a passing trend to a conceptual pillar of scholarship of
teaching and learning. Several researchers have explored learner-centered concepts
with promising early results.

2. With your groupmates, interview at least five teachers (one from each level—
preschool, elementary, high school, college, or graduate). Ask them to explain
their ideas on learner-centered teaching and how important this is for the
learners. Let them cite examples of strategies or activities they employ in their
teachings that could be considered as inclusive and learner centered.
TEACHERS:
All students have access to flexible learning options and successful approaches
to achieve educational goals in inclusive learning environments. All children, regardless
of ability or disability, learn in the same age-appropriate classroom in an inclusive
education
setting. It is founded on the belief that all children and families are valuable and deserve
equal access to opportunity.
Think Inclusive reported on a 2001 study that looked at "two-year academic
improvement for kids with disabilities in general education and self-contained
classrooms." In general education, 47.1 percent of students with disabilities improved
their math skills, compared to 34% in self-contained courses. In both settings, reading
progress was similar. When kids with disabilities were present, the study discovered that
typical peers made greater math progress. Extra help and support in these classes,
researchers hypothesized, resulted in gains for all students." For students with
impairments, there are additional benefits such as enhanced communication skills and
social skills, as well as reduced incidences of disruptive conduct and absenteeism.