Teacher-centered to Learner-centered
From teacher’s perspective, the teacher may have to spend more time on the teaching and learning process because he or she has to help students to figure out what they want to learn by themselves. Hence, we can see that making your classroom learner-centered doesn’t mean that the teacher does less work or preparation for their class. Instead, how to involve students to participate in their own learning will be a complex and challenging task.
In other hand, I think students who used to be in a teacher-centered classroom may step back if the teacher suddenly ask them to speak up and take control over their own learning. Therefore, to cultivate students’ sense of responsibility and courage to speak out their ideas are also important.
posted by Helen @ 5:52 PM
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Oh, yes, you are quite right about how much time is needed to prepare a learner-centered class. In the teacher-centered paradigm, it is the teacher who takes charge of everything, but all he/she needs to do is do his/her job well. There's little involvement from the learners. It's quite different when we expect the learners to actively engage in the learning process. The course must be designed carefully, and activities need to be meaningful and constructive. You know, "if we fail to plan, then we plan to fail." In addition, you bring up another important issue, "how to make students accept the idea of learner-centeredness." I use a "step-by-step" strategy to introduce the concept and practice of the learner-centered approach. I always say it's a kind of "brain-washing." We teachers need to have confidence and competence to convince our learners to collaborate with us. If we are not sure of what we are doing, the students would know eventually!
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