Learner Centered Teaching Methods
- 1. Learner Centered Teaching Methods 1. Laboratory method 2. Guided discovery method 3. Project method
- 2. • Shift the focus of instructions from the teacher to student. • Focus on skills and practices that enable life long learning. • Learning practices are based on constructivist learning theory • Require students to be alive, responsible participants in their own learning Characteristics
- 3. • Emphasizes student’s interests abilities and learning style. • Teacher plays the role of a facilitator of learning for individuals rather than for a class as a whole
- 4. Laboratory method • Deepening the understanding that scientific concepts and applications are closely related to natural environment. • Learning by doing. • Maximum student activity can be achieved. • Learn to work in co-operation with others. • They can directly see what is happening. • Students acquire skills in handling scientific apparatus, reading scales, drawing diagrams etc.
- 5. Steps • Make an observation. • Ask a question. • Make a hypothesis. • Conduct experiments. • Draw conclusions. • Report results.
- 6. Advantages • Provide various kinds of learning experience • Individual differences are taken into consideration • Students learn to explore on their own. • Practical skills and proficiency get developed • Intimate relationship between students and teacher develop. • Good habits are developed- independence, honesty and truthfulness.
- 7. • Students get sense of achievement.
- 8. Disadvantages • Limited applicability. • Separate equipments and resources are needed. • Huge funds are needed. • Increased work load on teachers and students. • Need well experienced teachers.
- 9. Guided discovery method • Pupils are carefully directed down a particular path to discover patterns. • They are provided with cues an questions.
- 10. Steps • Exploration: Teacher provide divergent questions and asses the students. • Invention: Student find meaning and structure of ideas. • Discovery: student apply what he learned in new situations.