LEARNER-CENTERED

TEACHING

• deepen your understanding on how

to become proficient in
implementing a learner-centered
teaching approach.
Checklist on Learner-
Centered Pedagogy
• Were you  allowed by your teachers to  set specific learning goals
for your self?
• Have you experienced being given the freedom to choose a topic
for a course requirement?
• Have you experienced being asked by your teacher for your input
or opinion in deciding what topics to learn in a course?
• Have you experienced being given a chance to choose a type of
assessment task you can do to effectively demonstrate what you
already know?
• Do your teachers frequently check first what you already know
about a certain lesson?
• Has collaboration among students emphasized more than
competition in your learning experience through the years?
• Have you experienced being given the opportunity to develop your
self- and peer-assessment skills?
• Have you experienced being given a flexible date for submitting
your project?
LEARNER-CENTERED
TEACHING
• has become a popular phrase among
educators nowadays.
• t has been named in several ways such
as student-centred approach or learner-
centered pedagogy in many textbooks
and journal articles.  
• a book published in 2002 by Maryllen
Weimer stands as one of the earlier
attempts to comprehensively discuss
and define what is LCT about.
 ‘Learner-Centered Teaching:
Five Key Changes to Practice’
Balance of Power
• learners are frequently consulted and
given immediate and ongoing
feedback by the teacher. 
• the teacher empowers students by
giving them the opportunity to choose
and make decisions like selecting
among lesson topics, choose learning
activities, determine pace of learning,
and select an assessment task to
demonstrate one’s mastery of targeted
learning competencies.
Function of Content
• teachers need to allow learners to raise
their own questions, generate their
own answers or solutions.
• "Students must construct their own
meanings” (Stage, Muller, Kinzie, and
Simmons, 1998, p. 35). In other words,
learners are capable of constructing
and reconstructing their knowledge
through active personal effort. 
• teachers must begin by finding out
students’ prior knowledge or
conceptions and then design learning
activities that will change these pre-
instructional concepts.
Role of Teacher
• Constructivism theory brings the
role of the teacher as that of a
facilitator of learning, not as the
fountain of learning.
• greater involvement with students
by the teacher is central to student
motivation.
• Teachers must become comfortable
with changing their leadership style
from directive to consultative--
from "Do as I say" to "Based on
your needs, let's co-develop and
implement a plan of action.
Responsibility for
Learning
• the goal of 21st century education ought to be the
creation of independent, autonomous learners who
assume responsibility for their own learning.
• Learning skills of autonomous self-regulating
learners can be learned and must be taught even at
an early age. This is even more important when
entering higher education. 
• Learning is cooperative, collaborative, and
community-oriented.
• Students are encouraged to direct their own
learning and to work with other students on
research projects and assignments that are both
culturally and socially relevant to them.
Evaluation Purpose
and Process
• The literature on self-directed learning also
underscores the importance of assessment, only in
this case it is the ability of students to self-assess
accurately. Sophisticated learners know when they
do or do not understand something.

• They can review a performance and identify what

needs improvement.

• They have mechanisms for its collections and

methods for evaluating it and acting on it.
 Four Principles
of
Student-centered
Approach
Top 20 Principles
for Teaching and
Learning
 • You may conduct a one-on-one
interview with a new and seasoned
teacher in your school, or among your
relatives and friends, or those within
your neighborhood. List down his or
her practices in terms of applying the
Application learner-centered teaching approach.
• After conducting the interview, what
was the most interesting response you
received from your interviewees? Why
do you say so?