This document from Vecpiebalga Secondary School in Latvia discusses placing learners at the heart of the learning process by meeting their individual needs, interests, and learning styles. It advocates answering three questions - what the learner wants to learn about, how they learn best based on their abilities and style, and why the topic is relevant to them. The school emphasizes learning in a fun, colorful way with empathy, relevance, and allowing students to find themselves in the material. It lists various student-centered activities and assessments used, including projects, discussions, debates, quizzes, presentations, role plays, and portfolios.

2. Vecpiebalga Secondary School
Latvia

3. “Placing learners at the heart of the learning
process and meeting their needs...
students are able to learn what is relevant for
them in ways that are appropriate.”
( Edwards).

5. Answer is in 3 questions:
 What? (interests, content)
 How? (abilities, style)
Why?

6. Input Interaction, opportuni-
ties to learn
as a passenger as a driver
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7.  Learn something new(step out of the
territory of the subject),
 Do it with fun, humour, in a colourful way,
 Think about empathy( try to step in other
shoes),
 Relevance is important,
 Ego( we are self-centred “We are interested
in something so far as we can find
something of ourselves in it”/P. Freire/)

8.  projects,
 discussions,
 debates,
 quizzes,
 presentations,
 role plays,
 making posters ,
 creating mind maps,
 writing newspaper articles,
 trips, excursions

9. Kinds of student-centred assessment(used in
our school):
 portfolios,
 self assessment