FOUNDATIONS OF THE LEARNER- CENTERED APPROACH

CHAPTER 1

LEARNER - CENTERED TEACHING: ROOTS AND ORIGINS

This chapter mainly explains how someone became a learner - centered teacher, the approaches used as a collection of educational theories it helped to promotes learning.Also, when we want to change something at teaching process we must read to support our ideologies with further researches or findings in order to get a logical view. In this case, the author has read the transformative learning theory to change the pedagogy thinking. Besides, the author said that he saw an authoritarian, controlling teacher. I realized that motivation factor has an enormous impact on student learning process.

In addition, this chapter helped me to reflect on my teaching process because teachers feel that they have the power over students and almost all the time transmit afraid on their students. I realized that as human beings and as teachers we need to be patient and lovely with them especially when they are kids, and it is our opportunity to build confidence and respect between us. For example, at any situation or opportunity you can take an advantage by providing a constructive feedback to reinforce what he/ she made.In other words, students are part of this process supporting by Constructivist theory where learners are receiving the knowledge in an active way in other words it calls cooperative learning for example solving problems in peer or groups.

Teachers are facilitators in the knowledge acquisition, because we as teachers have the capacity to influence positively on their independent learning process by applying strategies to promote the responsibility to achieve their goals making them stronger as the author said maintain climates that are conducive to learning . Nowadays, I noticed that teacher and students have an extrinsic motivation to learn because learners do things just to get scores or points. While, teachers must orient to a conscious learning where they will be able to contribute, study and come prepared to each lesson.

Finally, I want to promote at my classroom the importance to produce a product, perform a skill and demonstrate their knowledge taking into account the transformative learning theory by promoting their encourage reflection, critique and development of self- awareness.I really appreciated this book because it provides a huge information about the learner- center teaching by sharing a personal teaching situation.

 Bibliography: 

Weimer, M. (2002). Learner-centered teaching: Five key changes to practice. John Wiley & Sons. 
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Additional information

1.Princeton.edu,(2015)from
http://www.princeton.edu/cst/teaching-resources/methods/ModifiedPCASTTable.pdf

2. Vuir.vu.edu.au,(2015)from
 http://vuir.vu.edu.au/1445/1/Matsau.pdf