What is learner-centered teaching?

 A learner centered teaching means

inverting the traditional teacher-centered
understanding of the learning process
and putting students at the center of the
learning process
The Definition and Characteristics of a
learner-centered teaching
 It is an approach to teach that focuses
on student learning rather than on what
teacher is doing
 Learner-centered teaching is not one
specific teaching method
Its Objectives
 It shifts the focus of activity from the
teacher to the learners
 It 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
5 CHARACTERISTICS OF A
LEARNER-CENTERED
TEACHING
LEARNER-CENTERED
TEACHINGENGAGES
STUDENTS IN THE HARD,
MESSY WORK OF LEARNING

 On traditional teaching in most classes,

teachers are working much harder than
student
LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING
INCLUDES EXPLICIT
 Students learn how to think,
solve problems, decision-
making, team work, evaluate
evidence, analyze arguments,
generate hypotheses
(essential to mastery/show
mastery)
 LEARNER-CENTERED
TEACHING ENCOURAGES
STUDENTS TO REFLECT ON
WHAT THEY ARE LEARNING AND
HOW THEY ARE LEARNING IT

 It challenges student assumptions about

learning and encourage them to accept
responsibility for decisions they make
about learning
 LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING MOTIVATES
STUDENTS BY GIVING THEM SOME CONTROL
OVER LEARNING PROCESSES

Teachers take most of the decisions

about learning for students. Teachers
decide what students should learn,
how they learn it, the pace at which
they learn and then teachers
determine whether students have
learned

LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING
ENCOURAGES COLLABORATION
 Learner-centered
teachers work to develop
structures that promote
shared commitments to
learning
THE DIMENSIONS OF A
LEARNER-CENTERED
TEACHING
A. THE FUNCTION OF A
LEARNER-CENTEREDTEACHING
 Practice using inquiry or ways
of thinking in the discipline
 Students engage in most of the
content to make their own
 Students make meaning out of
the content
 Learn to solve problems
B. THE ROLE OF
TEACHER
 To shape the life chances of
young people by imparting
knowledge (bringing the
curriculum to life (Harry Cutty)
 Teachers play a vital role in the
lives of the students in their
classrooms
 Teachers serve many other roles
in the classroom
B. THE ROLE OF
TEACHER
 Teaching knowledge
 Creating classroom
environments
 Role model
 Mentoring
 Being a learner centered
means adopting bottom-up
approach to curriculum
teaching and management
rather than entering the
school year with a set of fixed
units and activities
 A learner-centered teacher
begins by getting to know
her students and
understanding their hopes,
dreams, and needs. They
act as facilitator
 Teachers who act as
facilitators provide their
students with materials,
opportunities and guidance as
students take on agency for
other aspects of their own
learning
 Being learner-centered is not
easy because it requires
constant flexible attention to
who students really are, how
are they doing, and what
might help them achieve their
learning goals
 Students in learner-centered
classrooms become
independent learner who are
empowered to collaborate,
make good use of available
resources, and take charge for
their own growth and
development
C. RESPONSIBILITY FOR
LEARNING
 Students are the one who
should take responsibility for
learning
 Learners has the ability to
learn how to develop their
own skills and think for
themselves
D. THE PURPOSE OF PROCESS OF
ASSESSMENT
 Assessment is integrated within the
learning process
 Teachers give formative feedback for the
purpose of fostering improvement
 Students have multiple opportunities to
assess themselves and peers
D. THE PURPOSE OF PROCESS OF
ASSESSMENT
 Students can learn from
their mistakes and then
demonstrate mastery
 Teachers encourage
students to justify their
answers
HOW WILL YOU ASSESS YOUR
LEARNERS ?
 Names
 Needs
 Dreams
 Hopes
 Learning styles
 Cultural backgrounds
 Interests
 Personality
HOW WILL YOU ASSESS YOUR
LEARNERS ?
 20 children, 20 different
learning styles, 20
different needs, 20
different cultural
backgrounds, 20 different
interests and 20 different
personalities
E. THE BALANCE OF
POWER
 Learner-centered approaches empower
students to take responsibility and to
share in some decisions about their
courses
 Students can have some way over some
policies and deadline
 Once the students begin to gain some
control over the course, they will engage
more in the course and will learn more
THE PHILOSOPHICAL
FOUNDATIONS OF
EDUCATION
 Helps us determine the driving
purpose of education as well
as the roles of the various
participants
 Our philosophy presents the
manner of thinking from which
our goals are created
 REALISM
 IDEALISM
 EXISTENTIALISM
 CONSTRUCTIVISM
 NATURALISM
 REALISM
 IDEALISM
 EXISTENTIALISM
 CONSTRUCTIVISM
 NATURALISM
TEACHER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES
PERENNIALISM
 Eternal, timeless, can’t change,
ideas in the past are still relevant
in the present time)
 Focuses on everlasting ideas and
universal truths
 Mastery of the content
 Art, history and literature
TEACHER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES
ESSENTIALISM
 William Bagley
 Education is not to change the
society but to preserve it
 Traditional(memorization,
assessment)
 Basics (3Rs) reading, writing and
arithmetic
TEACHER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES
ESSENTIALISM
 More concerned with the
transfer of knowledge
 Learning as requirement
 Book-centered, ideas
and concepts
LEARNER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES
 Focus is both on the teacher and
the students
 Everyone learns from one another
 Focuses on the needs of the
learners
 Less authoritarian
 Prepares students in changing
future
LEARNER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES
 Realizing learners’ potentials
 Teachers serve a model that learners
imitate for interaction to happen
 Students work in pairs, groups or
individual
 Teachers provide additional
inputs/feedback/corrections
 Students’ evaluate their own learning
 Classroom is interactive, noisy and busy
LEARNER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES
PROGRESSIVISM
 It is not bookish
 Learning by doing
 Oppose memorization
 presence of interaction and experience
 Absence of fear as punishment
 Emphasizes change
LEARNER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES
 Believes in the concept that “man is a
social animal who learns through active
interplay with others with engaging
activities
 Exploration and experience
LEARNER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES
HUMANISM
 Live life to the fullest
 Individual freedom
 Physical activities/developing power to
think
 Importance of games and exercise in
education
 Motivation, praise and rewards
 LEARNER-CENTERED
PHILOSOPHIES
CONSTRUCTIVISM
 Its central idea is that human learning is
constructed that learners build through
previous learning
 Accommodating new learning experiences
 Knowledge is not a thing that can be simply
deposited by teachers into empty mind, but
knowledge is constructed by learners through
active mental process and development