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Ministry of Education 2023 / 2024�Private Educational Administration�E.L.T. Supervision

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Student-Centered

Classroom

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At end of the presentation, the audience will be able

  • To know about learner-centered teaching
  • To determine the characteristic of learner-centered teaching
  • To recognize the benefits of learner-centered teaching
  • To know the learner-centered teaching strategies

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�What is LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING?

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  • Inverting the traditional teacher-centered teaching.
  • Understanding of the learning process and putting students at the center of the learning process.Shifting the focus on the activity from the teacher to the learners.
  • Emphasizing what the learners do a
  • nd Not what the teacher does.
  • Focusing on skills and practices in a lifelong learning, creative thinking and independent problem-solving.
  • Insisting the learners to actively construct their own knowledge.

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Why should we implement it?�

There is a need to produce learners who are critical thinkers, problem solvers and creative.

There is a knowledge

Explosion, thus, a need to make sense of it, not memorize it.

It can improve student engagement and ownership of learning.

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Characteristics

  • Teaching and learning is personalized.
  • It gives interest, aspirations to individual students.
  • Teachers have the option of structuring the learning environment that suits them and their students.
  • Teachers make the optimal use of the facilities available to them.

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Characteristics

  • They have learned the knowledge and skills.

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  • Students have the flexibility to learn.

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  • Learners learn ``Anytime`` and ``Anywhere``.

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  • Students give opportunities to learn their own way.

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Benefits of learner-centered teaching

  • Permits opportunities to connect the content to the real life.

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  • Provides opportunities for higher order thinking as opposed to passive listening.

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  • Promotes greater student-faculty and student student interaction.
  • Increases student retention.

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Benefits of learner-centered teaching

  • Improves student’s self-esteem.

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  • Provides for improvement of social interaction skills, greater acceptance of others, and a greater sense of community in the class.

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  • Encourages alternative forms of assessment.

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  • Encourages innovation in both teaching and student involvement.

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Learner-Centered Teaching Strategies

  1. Active Learning Activities

The focus of this teaching method is the construction of knowledge rather than the transmission of knowledge from a source such as the teacher.

Examples:

1- Jig Saw 2- Experiment 3- Project Based Learning

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Learner-Centered Teaching Strategies�

1-Active Learning

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4-Dicovery learning

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5- Q& A (Questions & Answers)

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6- Problem based learning

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Learner-Centered Teaching Strategies

2. Cooperative Learning

Is the process of breaking a classroom of students into small groups so they can discover a new concept together and help each other learn.

Example:

Think-pair –share

Tea party

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Learner-Centered Teaching Strategies

3. Inquiry - Based Learning

Is an approach to learning that emphasizes the student’s role in the learning process, rather than the teacher telling students what they need to know, students are encouraged to explore the material, ask questions, and share ideas.

  • Examples:
  • Field trips
  • Projects
  • Investigations

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