Learner-Centered Teaching

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This paper reviews literature regarding learner-centered teaching practices and the old rote memorization styles of teaching. The paper compares real life learning situations to those in the classroom. It shows that relaying information through memorization techniques, builds misunderstanding and reduces self-esteem, which then becomes a barrier to understanding. The paper closes by demonstrating the value of a learner-teacher cooperative in which the learner is teaching the instructor how they best learn, offering both a better opportunity to demonstrate learning and greater success for both in the future.

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"Though, as has been mentioned before, the focus of the two works are decidedly different in that the second directly addresses higher education and the first is more likely to be applied to primary, intermediate and secondary settings they both have very strong points of departure for any individual or system seeking to make the learning environment more productive for students, rather than a system that focuses almost exclusively on the success of the teacher and learning as secondary to it. Though the lower school work, would inherently have less of a focus on this as autonomy in the public school systems is more limited than it is in the post-secondary setting the two together demonstrate the need to recognize the connections between student achievement as a demonstrative practice happening daily in the classroom, rather than demonstrated through the standardized testing outcomes alone."

Sample of Sources Used:

• McCombs, Barbara L. and Miller, Linda Learner Centered Classroom Practices and Assessments New York: Corwin Press, 2006.
• Weimer, Maryellen. Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Teaching. New York: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

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