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The Teacher'S Role, Student'S Role, Content Organisation, Delivery and Assessment in Learner-Centred Teaching
The Teacher'S Role, Student'S Role, Content Organisation, Delivery and Assessment in Learner-Centred Teaching
Introductions.
Learner-centred classroom is a learning strategies which is used replace the lectures in the
class with opportunities to develop and study materials outside the class using video clips and
reading materials. In the learner-centred model, teachers shift direct learning out of a large
group learning space and move it into the individual learning space. Many teachers start to
apply this model by using these readily available materials and enable the students to come to
class to be better prepared. This teaching and learning strategy had been compared to online,
blends and distance learning. Lectures and other activities are augmented by group discussion
or facilitating collaboration and peer instruction. Some have argued that the student-centred
instruction and engaged, active learning made possible in a flipped classroom represents what
should already be occur in classrooms. It does not eliminate the teachers of direct instruction.
Flipping the classrooms provides more time to address the needs of individual students.
Students have to spend working with one another. Teachers who want to use the Socratic
Method believe that flipped classrooms sacrifices actual instruction in order to increase
opportunities for students collaboration and activities generated and led by students.
Teachers Role
Teachers play the role as educators, facilitators and motivators in a student-centred learning
class. They arouse students to brainstorm ideas and collaborate with their group members. A
survey conducted by the Flipped Learning Network in 2012 found that teachers associate
flipped learning with improved student performance and attitudes, and increased job
Teachers help students to understand the concept and theory of what they learnt. Teachers are
not going to lecture but to plan, organise, support and help students to gain knowledge and
experience through discussions and exploration. Teachers play the role as mentor and guide
the students to explore as many knowledge as they can. Technologies help teachers to flow
their lessons in a flipped classroom much easier than before, in conventional classes.
Students also participate in collaborative learning where they collaborate and elaborate ideas
and opinions on focussed topic. Students find a final solution or conclusion through
collaboration. Students conveyed their ideas and opinions in a group discussion. They give
ideas and get new ideas while discuss. This will enhance their knowledge and ideas on what
that being discussed.
Students also need to cooperate among group members. They play their role respectively and
combined the ideas as a whole and final it with new solutions, many ideas and better
conclusions. They applied problem based learning and solve problems in variety ways to find
final decisions.
Students have to be well-prepared, doing their revision and get ready with ideas and opinions
to a better discussion. Students who are well-prepared may help their group members to find a
better solutions, gain more ideas and comes out with many brilliant ideas.
Content Organisation
In a flipped classroom, students are given a topic, and they will find the information about the
topic. They surf the internet, did a lot of reading, use variety of reading materials to gain
knowledge and ideas on focussed topic. They might be asked to complete their interactive
learning before the class started. Students practice and apply the main concept through
responses. They discuss, giving ideas and opinions and combined it as a whole. They checked
their understanding regarding the topic discussed and complete the study to more complex
job.
Depends to the traditional classroom, students read reading materials before the lessons. They
listen to a lecture and rarely participate in a discussion. They usually listen to teachers
instruction and they finished their homework. Students might get bored and has less ideas on
topic discussed.
Teachers should use variety of teaching methods to convey their learning outcomes.
Therefore, teachers have to make sure that students may understand the lessons and able to
transfer the knowledge they gain into their daily life. Students are what they learn from
teachers. Teachers have to arouse their ability of thinking, enhance their self-confidence and
able to give opinions on any matters.
Thus, teachers may organise the assessment easier as students had been taught to think
creatively and innovatively. Teachers should assess them based on their ability, means
assessment questions should be vary. Assessment also should be organised by skills and
should have a few level of difficulties. Students also should be assessed by organising project
work or problem solving based. Students will work in small group, they will be given a topic
or a problem. Within given time frame, they have to work it out. Students also may be
assessed by interactive assessment. Teachers may organise assessment that can be access
online. Students may finish their assessment within the time given.
Conclusion.
Flipped learning model can be one of a way to create a classroom environment that is learnercentred. It should be thought as a way to solve educational issues. Learner-centred learning
would provide activities in the classrooms that are action based, authentic, connected and
collaborative, innovative, high level and self-actualizing. As a conclusion, professional
educators said that, teachers should use the affordances of this model to become more
effective as teachers and students increase conceptual understanding.