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    Learner-Centered Teaching

    Learner-centered teaching:

    represents a paradigm shift from traditional teaching methods by focusing on how students learn instead
    of how teachers teach. Thus, the model's conceptual underpinning is rooted in learning, challenging us
    to ask the rarely heard question, "How can I improve my students' learning?" instead of the often asked
    "How can I improve my teaching?" (Weimer, 2002).

    Learner-centered teaching is:

    learning approach which is broadly related to, and supported by, constructivist theories of learning. It is
    characterized by innovative methods of teaching which aim to promote learning in communication with
    teachers and other learners and which take students seriously as active participants in their own
    learning, fostering transferable skills such as problem solving, critical thinking and reflective thinking.

    In teaching, consider the following questions:

    • What is the role of the teacher

    • What is the balance of power

    • What is the function of content

    • Whose responsibility is it for learning

    • What is the purpose and process of evaluation

    Dimensions of Learner-centered teaching

    1) the function of content;

    2) the role of the instructor;

    3) the responsibility for learning;

    4) the purposes and processes of assessment, and

    5) the balance of power.

    Function of content:

    focus on higher-order thinking rather than memorization, allowing learners to actively explore and
    reflect on their learning.

    The role of the instructor

    The role of the instructor goes beyond transmitting knowledge, as they take on the responsibility of
    facilitating active learning experiences for the learners
    Responsibility for learning

    Responsibility for learning should rest with the students. Instructor assumes all responsibility for
    students learning (provides content to memorize, does not require students to create their own meaning
    of content, tells students exactly what will be on examinations).

    The purposes and processes of assessment

    Assessment is the systematic basis for making inferences about the learning and development of
    students.

    assessment for learning,

    is an approach to teaching and learning that creates feedback which is then used to improve students'
    performance.

    assessment as learning,

    involves students monitoring and gathering information about their own learning

    and assessment of learning.

    Assessment of learning requires teachers to make judgements about student learning and to
    communicate to parents, other teachers and to students themselves about what students know and can
    do, in relation to the standards-referenced framework of syllabuses.

    Balance of power

    Balance of power emphasizes that the control in the learning process and the authority of teachers
    decrease the motivation of the students and as a result we come up with the unwilling and dependent
    students who cannot take the responsibility of their own learning.

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