UNIT 9
Extra unit from learner centered teaching book
Reading this chapter teachers take a very important
role in the education process because as the word TEACHER says they work as facilitators of sharing knowledge, and
it is not as easy as it seems to be, because if a teacher makes any mistake at
the process of teaching the student will grew up with that wrong information,
so in the future more problems can occur, including students’ frustration about
learning, because they were taught in a wrong way so due to that fact the role
of a teacher is essential. During
the teaching process all the
teachers takes different roles in every single class because each class is not
the same every day and teachers must plan the class depending on the lesson,
class size, and learning styles.
Teachers let students do more learning tasks. It means
that the teacher must not do all the job, he or she must be a guide for
students and let them to do the activities by their own, so as a result
students will practice and improve their knowledge. In the telling principle,
teachers tells students what they have to do so at the end they will develop
the discovering part.
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.
Traditionally instructors focused on what they
did, and not on what the students are learning. This emphasis on what
instructors do often leads to students who are passive learners and who did not
take responsibility for their own learning. Educators call this traditional
method, “instructor-centered teaching.” In contrast, “learner-centered
teaching” occurs when instructors focus on student learning.
Finally I concluded that the teachers’ role is very
important inside f the students’ role, because we are responsible for their
learning but we must take the information from this book and it suggest that we
must be a guide for our students, not the person who will do everything for
them. In this book it says that students are the ones who must develop each
task by they own but with the teacher’s suggestions and guide.
VIDEO
The following video will be very helpful for you to know if you are an effective teacher.
Well, from my point of view I can say that learners are the ones that will take advantage of this approach. Based on different learners' needs learner-centered approach is a mixture of many approaches and methods which are applied in classrooms. I will apply this approach in future lessons to see what can be result by usig it as a personal experience.
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