Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice

   

FOUNDATIONS OF LEARNER CENTERED APPROACH

By reading this book we can learn mamy interesting things related to the learning-teaching process one of those things is that Student learning should be the focus on classes becuase pedagogy focuses  on the strategies and skills of the teacher, because it means that there must be inter-learning.This book is divided into two parts and also shows good examples to guide teacher practice, with handouts that develop learning skills, a syllabus and learning log, and a robust reading list of the literature.

In the book there are mentioned important things such as:

• the balance of power
• the function of content
• the role of the teacher
• the responsibility for learning
• the purpose and processes of evaluation

Personally I think that this books is very usefull since it shows examples of Problems of power and authority that can be fased all the time in the classroom. Is the teacher who controls the class, and the students learn through him, students must take into account that it benefits them. This assumption is legitimized through policies, procedures, rules, rights, and expectations. It can be associated with our country since in the book explains that students do not feel motivated becuase they do not they skills well developed and they can be afraid od participating in class.

Is for that reason that the teacher plays the mayor role into the class becuase is who manage it and also is the one that can motivate students to develop knowledge. If a teacher is well prepared and practice his roles in a good way he is going to create exellent students, too.

References:

• Learner-Centered Teaching: Five key changes to practice; by Maryellen Weimen. Jossey-Bass, 2002