Learner Centered Teaching

1. Successful Teaching Methodology Learner Centered Teaching Teaching Methodology Part I

2. The Teacher Role1 • “Learner-centered methods depends on faculty being able to step aside and let students take the lead” (Weimer, 2002, p. 72).

3. The Teacher Role1 • Learner-centered teachers guide & facilitate: • Like a conductor for the orchestra • Like a coaches for a team • Like a gardener prepare the land and let plant to grow (to have a beautiful garden you need…)

4. The Teacher Role1 • Learner-centered teachers connect students & resources: • Design activities & assignments that engage learners • Helping learners to learn how to solve problems

5. The Teacher Role1 • Helping learners to develop their own understanding of the concepts • A student cannot be forced to learn, and a teacher cannot learn anything for a student

6. In the Trenchers • Guiding Learners: • The following slide introduce seven general principle that identified by Weimer (2002) with some example

7. Principles1 1. Teachers do learning tasks less • Teachers must stop always doing the learning tasks: • Generating examples • Asking questions • Answering question • Summarizing the discussion • Solving problems • Creating diagrams

8. Principles1 2. Teachers do less telling; students do more discovering – teacher tell students everything such: • We do a demonstration • We tell them what we are going to do; what we have done; what happened.. • We tell them how to study; do the reading; what part is important; come to the class.. • Let them figure out for themselves!! Ex: when is the group project due? That said in syllbus

9. Principles1 3. Teachers do more design work: Design leaner-centered environments are important and challenging • Take students with current knowledge/skill • Move them to new level of competence Learning activities assignments need to motivate / engage the learner for participation & involvement

10. Principles1 4. Faculty do more modeling The learner need to see example – modeling may be easier for some topics

11. Principles1 5. Faculty do more to get students learning from and with each other • Potential value for students that working together • Study group • Group project • Debate group Student listen and learn from each other

12. Principles1 6. Faculty work to create a climates for learning Create learner-centered teaching environments and maintain According to Fraser, Treagust & Dennis (1996)

13. According to Fraser, Treagust & Dennis (1996) • Personalization • Involvement • Student cohesiveness • Satisfaction • Task orientation • Innovations • Individualization

14. Principles1 7. Faculty do more with feedback “it might be that a group gets a memo with feedback on a task or an individual student gets a letter with feedback on a paper” (Weimer, 2002, p. 90).

15. Learner Centered Teaching Lecture Demonstration Question Guided Practice: Independent - Grouping Simulation (Case) Reflective Thinking

16. References 1. Fraser, B. J., Treagust, D. F., & Dennis, N. C. (1996). Development of an Instrument for Assessing Classroom Psychosocial Environment at Universities and Colleges. Studies in Higher Education, 11(1), 43-53 2. Weimer, M. (2002). Learner-Centered Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass A Wiley Company. Home