FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING

Learner-centered teaching means inverting the traditional teacher-centered understanding

of the learning process and putting students at the center of the learning process. This course
deals with the rudiments of learning and teaching, specifically focused on the dominant learning
theories, metacognitive, and motivational socio-cultural factors that affect learning vis-à-vis its
implications, significance, and applications in teaching (Flores & Silabay, 2022).
FOUNDATION AND CHARACTERISTICS:
 It is an approach to teaching that focuses on student learning rather than on what the
teacher is doing.
 Learner-centered teaching is not one specific teaching method.
 Many different instructional methods can use a learner-centered approach.
 The path to good teaching can be much easier to navigate when we view students as
our traveling companions.
 The more we know about them and how they learn, the more likely we are to
experience the joy of teaching.
LEARNER-CENTERED PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES (LCP)
 Focused on each student’s interests, abilities, and learning styles, placing the teacher as a
facilitator.
LEARNER CENTERED-TEACHING
 An approach that places the learner at the center of the learning process.
STUDENT’S DIVERSITY IN MOTIVATION
Students, who by themselves are already as diverse, also differ in motivation. This
diversity in motivation may be traced to differences in age, developmental stage, gender,
socioeconomic and cultural background.
MOTIVATION IN THE CLASSROOM
The concept of motivation is linked closely to other constructs in education and
psychology such as such as constructs of attention, needs, goals and interests which are all
contributed to stimulating students’ interest in learning and their intention to engage in particular
activities and achieve various goals. (Krause, K.L, Bochner, S, $ Duchesne, S., 2003).
Environmental factors that affect students’ motivation include human as well as non-
human factors. The immediate human factors that surround the learner are the teachers, the other
students, and his/her parents.
 Researchers cite the following affected characteristics of effective teachers (James H.
Stronge, 2002); Caring, Fairness and respect, Social interactions with students’, Enthusiasm and
motivation for learning shown in, Attitude toward the teaching profession, Positive expectations
of students manifested in, and Reflective practice.
ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES THAT CAN INCREASE MOTIVATION AND
OUTCOME-BASED TEACHING LEARNING
Learning is an integral part of our life. In a classroom, it becomes a demanding process. It
requires active participation from both ends. This continuous involvement is necessary to
produce effective results. The entire learning process needs to be verified at regular intervals. It
will allow us to generate good results. Furthermore, these verifications allow us to upgrade and
update the process. As a result, desirable results can be achieved.
NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
The significance of learning is familiar to all. Firstly, we should include assessment as a
natural part of the learning process. Subsequently, we will understand its role. This will be
possible when we realize how both complement each other.
OUTCOME-BASED TEACHING AND LEARNING
Outcome-based education is an educational theory that bases each part of an educational
system around goals (outcomes). By the end of the educational experience, each student should
have achieved the goal (William Spady, 1994) Outcome-based Teaching and Learning (OBTL)
is a student-centered education approach where the programme’s intended learning outcomes are
explicitly defined for students to achieve. Teaching and learning activities are then carefully
designed to facilitate students to achieve these outcomes. The success of OBTL is based on
evidence from the assessment results and student learning experience.
THE OUTCOME-BASED TEACHING AND LEARNING APPROACH FOCUSES ON:
 the development of teaching and learning activities in enhancing student learning
experiences;
 the design of assessment processes to monitor students’ learning progress and the
achievement of the desired outcomes and attributes; and
 the collection of stakeholders’ feedback for continuous improvement.
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Name: Marsha A. Renzon Program/Year: BSED FIL - III

Instructor: Vinna K. Logroño Date: June 19, 2024

FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING

Learner-centered education: providing students with valuable skills:
I was introduced to the learner-centered education while volunteering as a teacher for
Global Learning, a non-profit organization that uses innovative teaching to tackle the issues of
disadvantaged schools in several countries of Latin America. Schools from poor communities
often lack access to technology, resort to old-fashioned teaching techniques and, as consequence,
they fail to develop the valuable skills employers currently seek in their students. Learner-
centered education uses interactive strategies to engage the students and develop their abilities.
This educational approach helps students develop skills such as decision making and problem
solving, team work, and presentation skills that are relevant to the current labor needs. Here are
three reasons why learner-centered education is so important:
Labor markets need problem solvers.
Learner-centered education empowers the students to take ownership of what they learn
by focusing on how the new knowledge solves a problem or adds value. Instead of simply
pouring information over the child’s mind, the facilitator presents the student with an issue and
guides the class as they build a solution. Students “discover” the new information and come up
with solutions instead of passively waiting for the teacher’s answers. Current work environments
require collaborators willing to innovate and tackle roadblocks. Thus, developing the skills of
exploring problems and making decisions to solve them is extremely valuable for quick-paced
companies where solutions are needed as soon as possible.
Labor markets need leaders that can work in multicultural and diverse environments.
Learner-centered education allows the students to interact with their teams through
discussions and group activities. This approach encourages students to sit in groups for
collaboration. By sitting with other peers, students discuss, work together, learn to deal with
others, and many other daily tasks that will eventually help them become team players. This
characteristic is crucial for international work environments. Team work is essential when you
are leading a groups of people from different countries stakes towards a common goal.
Labor markets need employees that can effectively present results, persuade audiences,
and coach others.
Learner-centered education creates opportunities for students to teach each other, answer
their peer’s questions, and present the results of their works. Good employees that are unable to
engage with their audience to communicate strategies will be in great disadvantage. Furthermore,
great work leaders can coach their teams, communicate a vision, and persuade key stakeholders.
If the students develop the skills of public speaking from a young age, they will have acquired an
important asset for their professional lives.
 In summary, learner-centered education helps the students develop skills that will better
equipped them for their professional careers. Teachers can be trained in this approach, so they
can apply the principles and provide their students with a better learning experience. This
method does not require technology or special resources that schools from communities in need
may not have; in fact, in relies on the most valuable asset in the classroom: the students.

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Name: Karla Mae Trazares Program/Year: BSED FIL - III
Instructor: Vinna K. Logroño Date: June 19, 2024

FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING

Learner-centered teaching represents a progressive approach in education where students

take an active role in their learning process, contrasting with traditional methods that prioritize
teacher instruction. This method emphasizes active engagement, collaborative learning, critical
thinking, and the use of technology to enhance educational outcomes.
Learner-centered teaching prioritizes active learning through discussions, problem-
solving, and hands-on activities, fostering deeper understanding and application of knowledge. It
empowers students by encouraging them to set their own learning goals, make decisions about
their education, and reflect on their progress, thereby promoting accountability and autonomy.
Collaboration among students is also emphasized, allowing them to learn from diverse
perspectives and develop essential interpersonal skills. Critical thinking is central, with
assignments designed to challenge students to analyze information, evaluate arguments, and
apply concepts in new contexts. Technology integration supports personalized learning
experiences and equips students with digital literacy skills necessary for the modern world.
In conclusion, learner-centered teaching transforms education by shifting the focus to
student engagement, responsibility, collaboration, critical thinking, and technological integration.
By fostering these principles, educators empower students to become lifelong learners who are
well-prepared to navigate and succeed in a dynamic global environment.
Name: Vina T. Luyahan Program/Year: BSED FIL - III
Instructor: Vinna K. Logroño Date: June 19, 2024

FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING

Facilitating Learner-Centered Teaching is a potent tool to help pre-service and practicing
teachers understand the fundamental pedagogical principles, processes, and practices that are
anchored on learner-centeredness and other educational psychologies, as they apply to facilitate
the delivery of teaching and learning in the current educational milieu. Every chapter also ends
with stimulated questions in the Licensure Exam for Teachers.
Weimer (2002) discusses five characteristics of teaching that make it learner centered:
 Learner-centered teaching engages students in the hard, messy work of learning.
 It is teaching that motivates and empowers students by giving them some control over
learning processes.
 Learner-centered teaching encourages students to reflect on what they are learning and
how they are learning it.
 It is teaching that encourages collaboration, acknowledging the classroom (be it virtual or
real) as a community where everyone shares the learning agenda.
 Learner-centered teaching includes explicit skill instruction. It teaches students how to
think, solve problems, evaluate evidence, analyze arguments, and generate hypotheses.
FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING
This course deals with the rudiments of learning and teaching, specifically focused on the
dominant learning theories, metacognitive, motivational socio-cultural factors that affect learning
vis-à-vis its implications, significance, and applications in teaching.
Learner-centered education uses interactive strategies to engage the students and develop
their abilities. This educational approach helps students develop skills such as decision making
and problem solving, team work, and presentation skills that are relevant to the current labor
needs.
LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING - Learner-centered teaching means inverting the
traditional teacher- centered understanding of the learning process and putting students at
the center of the learning process.
It is an approach to teach that focuses on student learning • rather than on what the teacher is
doing • Learner-centered teaching is not one specific teaching method • Many different
instructional methods can use a learner-centered approach. • The path to good teaching can be
much easier to navigate when we view students as our traveling companions. • The more we
know about them and how they learn, the more likely we are to experience the joy of teaching.
CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING
1. Learner-centered teaching engages students in the hard, messy work of learning. On
traditional teaching most classesteachers are working much harder than students.
2. Learner-centered teaching includes explicit skill instruction. Students learn how to think,
solve problems, decision making, team work, evaluate evidence, analyze arguments,
generate hypotheses4all those learning skills essential to mastering material in the discipline.
3. Learner-centered teaching encourages students to reflect on what they are learning and
how they are learning it. They challenge student assumptions about learning and encourage
them to accept responsibility for decisions they make about learning;
4. Learner-centered teaching motivates students by giving them some control over learning
processes. Teachers make most of the decisions about learning for students. Teachers
decide what students should learn, how they learn it, the pace at which they learn, the
conditions under which they learn and then teachers determine whether students have
learned.
5. Learner-centered teaching encourages collaboration Learner-centered teachers work to
develop structures that promote shared commitments to learning.

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Name: Leonilo G. Siman Program/Year: BSED FIL - III
Instructor: Vinna K. Logroño Date: June 19, 2024

FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING

Learner-centered teaching engages students in the hard, messy work of learning. On
traditional teaching in most classes teachers are working much harder than students. Learner-
centered teaching includes explicit skill instruction. Students learn how to think, solve problems,
decision making, team work, evaluate evidence, analyze arguments, generate hypotheses—all
those learning skills essential to mastering material in the discipline. Learner-centered teaching
encourages students to reflect on what they are learning and how they are learning it. They
challenge student assumptions about learning and encourage them to accept responsibility for
decisions they make about learning; Learner-centered teaching motivates students by giving
them some control over learning processes. Teachers make most of the decisions about learning
for students. Teachers decide what students should learn, how they learn it, the pace at which
they learn, the conditions under which they learn and then teachers determine whether students
have learned. Learner-centered teaching encourages collaboration Learner-centered teachers
work to develop structures that promote shared commitments to learning.
Being a learner-centered teacher isn't always easy because it requires constant and
flexible attention to who students really are, how they're doing, and what will help them achieve
their learning goals. Students in learner-centered classrooms become independent learners who
are empowered to collaborate, make good use of available resources, and take charge of their
own academic development and growth. Learner-centered teachers are characterized by a focus
on facilitating learning by inspiring the learning process rather than simply providing
information. Identify the advantages and specific characteristics of learner-centered teachers It
defines learner-centered teaching as an interactive process where the teacher facilitates and
learners are active participants. It also defines metacognition as "thinking about thinking" and
discusses the importance of teaching students how to learn
Being a learner-centered teacher isn't always easy because it requires constant and
flexible attention to who students really are, how they're doing, and what will help them achieve
their learning goals. Students in learner centered classrooms become independent learners who
are empowered to collaborate, make good use of available resources, and take charge of their
own academic development and [Link] Learner-centered teaching is an approach to
teaching that increasingly encouraged in education. Learner-centered teachers do not employ a
single teaching method. Lastly, learner centered teaching focus on student learning. It gives time,
space and circumstances for students to learn the resource material of learning based on their
needs, interests, ability and their learning styles. And, they deserve to be provided a conducive
teaching, learning environment in order to develop their own God-given richness.
Name: Pauline D. Vitug Program/Year: BSED FIL - III
Instructor: Vinna K. Logroño Date: June 19, 2024

FACILITATING LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING

LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING
Learner-centered teaching means inverting the traditional teacher- centered
understanding of the learning process and putting students at the center of the learning
process Note: In the teacher-centered classroom, teachers are the primary source for
knowledge.
LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING
• It is an approach to teach that focuses on student learning • rather than on what the
teacher is doing
• Learner-centered teaching is not one specific teaching method
• Many different instructional methods can use a learner-centered approach.
• The path to good teaching can be much easier to navigate when we view students as our
traveling companions.
• The more we know about them and how they learn, the more likely we are to
experience the joy of teaching.
Learner Centered Objectives:
• Learner-centered approach shifts the focus of activity from the teacher to the learners
• Emphasizes what the learners do as against what the teacher does.
• it focuses on skills and practices in a lifelong learning, creative thinking and
independent problem-solving.
• It insist the learners to actively construct their own knowledge.
5 CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNER-CENTERED TEACHING
1. Learner-centered teaching engages students in the hard, messy work of learning. On
traditional teaching in most classes teachers are working much harder than students.
2. Learner-centered teaching includes explicit skill instruction. Students learn how to
think, solve problems, decision making, team work, evaluate evidence, analyze
arguments, generate hypotheses4all those learning skills essential to mastering material
in the discipline.
3. Learner-centered teaching encourages students to reflect on what they are learning
and how they are learning it. They challenge student assumptions about learning and
encourage them to accept responsibility for decisions they make about learning;
4. Learner-centered teaching motivates students by giving them some control over
learning processes. Teachers make most of the decisions about learning for students.
Teachers decide what students should learn, how they learn it, the pace at which
 they learn, the conditions under which they learn and then teachers determine
whether students have learned.
5. Learner-centered teaching encourages collaboration Learner-centered teachers work to
develop structures that promote shared commitments for learning.

REFERENCE:
 [Link]
university/bsed-english/educ-313b-facilitating-learner-centered-teaching/32500741