Successful Teaching Methodology

Learner Centered
Teaching
Teaching Methodology
Part I
The Teacher’s Role

 “Learner-centered methods
depends on faculty being
able to step aside and let
students take the lead”
(Weimer, 2002, p. 72).
The Teacher Role1

 Learner-centered teachers guide &

facilitate:
– Like a conductor for the orchestra
– Like a coaches for a team
– Like a gardener prepare the land and let
plant to grow (to have a beautiful garden
you need…)
The Teacher Role1

 Learner-centered teachers connect

students & resources:
– Design activities & assignments that
engage learners
 Helping learners to learn how to solve
problems
The Teacher Role1

 Helping learners to develop their own

understanding of the concepts
– A student cannot be forced to learn, and
a teacher cannot learn anything for a
student
In the Trenchers

 Guiding Learners:
– The following slide introduce seven
general principle that identified by
Weimer (2002) with some example
Principles1

1. Teachers do learning tasks less

 Teachers must stop always doing the
learning tasks:
 Generating examples
 Asking questions
 Answering question
 Summarizing the discussion
 Solving problems
 Creating diagrams
Principles1

2. Teachers do less telling; students do more

discovering – teacher tell students
everything such:
 We do a demonstration
 We tell them what we are going to do; what we
have done; what happened..
 We tell them how to study; do the reading; what
part is important; come to the class..
 Let them figure out for themselves!!
Ex: when is the group project due? That said in syllbus
Principles1

3. Teachers do more design work:

Design leaner-centered environments are
important and challenging
 Take students with current knowledge/skill
 Move them to new level of competence

Learning activities assignments need to

motivate / engage the learner for
participation & involvement
Principles1

4. Faculty do more modeling

The learner need to see example –
modeling may be easier for some topics
Principles1

5. Faculty do more to get students

learning from and with each other
 Potential value for students that working
together
– Study group
– Group project
– Debate group
Student listen and learn from each other
Principles1

6. Faculty work to create a climates for

learning
Create learner-centered teaching
environments and maintain

According to Fraser, Treagust & Dennis

(1996)
According to Fraser, Treagust & Dennis
(1996)

1. Personalization
2. Involvement
3. Student cohesiveness
4. Satisfaction
5. Task orientation
6. Innovations
7. Individualization
Principles1

7. Faculty do more with feedback

“it might be that a group gets a memo with
feedback on a task or an individual
student gets a letter with feedback on a
paper” (Weimer, 2002, p. 90).
Learner Centered Teaching

Lecture
Demonstration

Question
Guided Practice:
Independent - Grouping

Simulation (Case)

Reflective Thinking
References
1. Fraser, B. J., Treagust, D. F., & Dennis, N. C.
(1996). Development of an Instrument for
Assessing Classroom Psychosocial Environment at
Universities and Colleges. Studies in Higher
Education, 11(1), 43-53
2. Weimer, M. (2002). Learner-Centered Teaching.
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass A Wiley Company.

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