ppt on learner centered learning

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

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)
1. Personalization
2. Involvement
3. Student cohesiveness
4. Satisfaction
5. Task orientation
6. Innovations
7. 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
Simulation (Case)
Question
Guided Practice:
Independent - Grouping
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.
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