The document discusses the learner-centered approach to teaching. It emphasizes that the learner has responsibility for their own learning, and the teacher acts as a facilitator. Key aspects include students having choice in what and how they study, a focus on individual needs and learning styles, and students constructing knowledge through gathering information and developing skills like critical thinking. The approach encourages student participation, collaboration through peer groups and teamwork, and reflection on their own learning. While it provides benefits like developing communication skills, some disadvantages are that classrooms may be noisier and some students prefer individual work.

1. Learner
Centered
Teaching
Lt. Dr. B. Ajantha Parthasarathi,
Assistant Professor of English,
Sri SRNM College, Sattur.

2. LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
Choice in what to study and how to study
Focused on the student’s needs, abilities, interests and learning styles with the
teacher as a facilitator of learning
Can get knowledge easily by accessing the material provided by the teacher
Construct knowledge through gathering and synthesizing information and
integrating it with the general skills of inquiry, communication, critical thinking,
problem solving and so on
Have a role to decide the learning strategy

3. LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
Teachers
• Provide the way for students to access the material
• Help them to decide the purpose that will be achieved by students
• Encourage them to evaluate their learning
• Help them to work together in groups
• Make sure that they know the way to use the sources and the facility of
learning

4. LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
Principles
 the learner has full responsibility for her/his learning
Involvement and participation are necessary for learning - learners
The relationship between learners is more equal, promoting growth and
development (peer group – Team work)
The teacher becomes a facilitator and resource person
The learner sees himself differently as a result of the learning experience

5. LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
Characteristics
 Engages students in the hard, messy work of learning. Teachers are doing too many learning tasks for
students – ask the questions, call on students, add details to their answers, offer the examples, organize the
content, do the preview and the review – teachers are working much harder than students – get far more
practice than the students.
 Explicit skill instruction – teachers teach students how to think, solve problems, evaluate evidence, analyze
arguments, generate hypotheses – do not assume that students pick up these skills on their own,
automatically.
 Encourages students to reflect on what they are learning and how they are learning it – include assignment
(seminar, quiz, role play, debate, elocution, model making, skit, ) components in which students reflect,
analyze and critique what they are learning and how they are learning it – make students aware of themselves
as learners and to make learning skills something students want to develop

6. LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
Characteristics
Control over learning processes – teachers decide
what students should learn,
how they learn it,
the pace at which they learn,
the conditions under which they learn
teachers determine whether students have learned
Encourages collaboration – teachers work to develop structures that promote
shared commitments to learning (peer group learning/team work)

7. LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
Advantages
• Learn important communicative and collaborative skills through group work
• More interested in learning activities when they can interact with one another
and participate actively
• Learn to direct their own learning, ask questions and complete tasks
independently

8. LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
Disadvantages
× Students are talking, classrooms are often busy, noisy and chaotic
× Teachers must attempt to manage all students activities at once, which can
be difficult when students are working on different stages of the same
project
× The teacher does not deliver instruction to all students at once, some
students may miss important facts
× Some students prefer to work alone, so group work can become a bit difficult
for them