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The document discusses learner-centered teaching, emphasizing the shift from teacher-centered to student-centered approaches in education. It highlights the need for such methods to enhance critical thinking, engagement, and long-term retention of knowledge. Various techniques and benefits of learner-centered teaching are outlined, including personalized learning, collaboration, and active participation in the learning process.

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Chapter 1-Faci

The document discusses learner-centered teaching, emphasizing the shift from teacher-centered to student-centered approaches in education. It highlights the need for such methods to enhance critical thinking, engagement, and long-term retention of knowledge. Various techniques and benefits of learner-centered teaching are outlined, including personalized learning, collaboration, and active participation in the learning process.

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arner- centered teachi

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• Meaning
• characteristics of learner-centered teaching
• characteristics learner-centered learning.
• Need for learner-centered approaches in
teaching
• advantages
• learner-centered teaching vs teacher-
centered learning, teaching
• Learner - centered techniques of teaching
and their advantages.

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Student-centered teaching
means inverting the traditional
teacher-centered understanding
of the learning process and putting
students at the centre of the
learning process

Note: In the teacher-centered


classroom, teachers are the primary
source for knowledge. 3
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• Need to produce students who are good critical thinkers, problem
solvers and creative thinkers
• Explosion of information: need to make sense of it, not memorize it
• Improve student engagement and ownership of learning
• Research shows that learner-centered methods lead to
 Increased student engagement with the content
 Deep learning
 Long term retention
 Acquisition of critical thinking or creative problem-solving skills
 Positive attitude toward the subject being taught
 Confidence in knowledge or skills
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Learner-centred approach shifts the focus of activity from
the teacher to the learners
Emphasizes what the learners do as against what the
teacher does
it focuses on skills and practices in a lifelong learning,
creative thinking and independent problem-
solving.
It insist the learners to actively construct their own
knowledge.

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1. Using student’s prior
knowledge
2. Motivates students by
giving them some control over
learning processes.
3. Engage students in the
process of learning.
4. Includes explicit skill
instruction.
5. Explain: Reflect on what
they are learning and how
they are learning
6. Encourages collaboration.
7. Evaluate student’s
hypothesis
racteristics of learner centered learning
1. Teaching and learning is personalized.
a) It is gives interest, aspirations to individual students.
b) Teachers have the option of structuring the learning environment that suits them
and their students.
c) Teachers make the optimal use of the facilities available to them.
2. They have learn the knowledge and skills.
3. Students have the flexibility to learn .
4. Learners learn "Anytime" and "Anywhere".
a) Students give opportunities to learn their own way.
5. Students need to have a clear idea.
6. Instructions must be easy to understand and comprehensive.
a) When students evaluate their own work it will help them mastery over the subjects.
b) Students working in group they involved more in activities because there are
opportunities for discussion and assisting peer students.
7. Students can work on various activities to their own needs and
interests.
8. Learning centered adaptable instructional tool.
Benefits of
Student- 1. Permits opportunities to connect the
Centered 2.
content to real life
Provides opportunities for higher order
Learning thinking as opposed to passive listening
3. Promotes greater student-faculty and
student-student interaction
4. Increases student retention
5. Improve student’s self esteem
6. Provides for improvement of social
interaction skills, greater acceptance of
others, and a greater sense of
“community” in the class
7. Encourages alternative forms of
assessment
8. Encourages innovation in both teaching
and student involvement
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Learner-centred
teaching does
not employ a
single teaching
method.

Emphasizes a variety of methods that shift the


role of the Teachers from givers of information
to facilitators of student learning.
Active learning
 Students solve problems, answer questions,
formulate questions of their own, discuss,
explain, debate, or brainstorm during class
Cooperative learning
 Students work in teams on problems and
projects under conditions that assure both
positive interdependence and individual
accountability
• Inductive teaching and learning
 Students are first presented with challenges (questions or
problems) and learn the course material in the context of
addressing the challenges.
 Includes inquiry-based learning, case-based instruction,
problem-based learning, project-based learning, discovery
learning, and just-in-time teaching.
• Small group work
• Classroom discussion
• Projects
• Presentation
• Games
• Debates
• Role play
• Case study
Activity (for Next Meeting)
• Group Activity/Role Play
• As a teacher How would you use the following
methods in your lesson?
1.Games
2.Debates
3.Role Play
4.Classroom Discusion

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Instructions
Assign a teacher and students for the role play.
Portray the methods given before this slide.
Make the role play realistic and Entertaining.
Criteria:
Creativity-25%
Relevance-25%
Execution-25%
Presentation-25%
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