Learner-centered teaching is an approach to teaching
that is increasingly being encouraged in higher education. Learner-centered
teachers do not employ a single teaching method. This approach emphasizes a
variety of different types of methods that shifts the role of the instructors
from givers of information to facilitating student learning.
Learner centered aproaches requires more work for teachers in the desing phase, but also it means more work for students because they have to work in learning tasks generating examples of the topic they are studying. Which is excelent because students learn what is the process to generate examples and also because they receive feedback and guidance from teacher. As a result they can obtain good examples for each task.
Moreover, students resist to this aproach because they are afraid of the things they have to do or the rules they have to follow in classroom.
I read this topic too and I found it very interesting. I think this approach is a challenge method for students because they have to take responsibilities about they things. However as a teachers, we need to build a good climate in the classrooms, so that students can overcome their frightening at the moment to do the tasks assigned
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