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Facilitating Learner-
Centered Teaching

Lesson 1: Definition, Characteristics and Descriptions of

Learner-Centered Teaching and Other Teaching
Approaches
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 Purity V. Mata
Instructor I
SSG Adviser
Chairperson, Campus Organization
Chairperson, R&D Educ. Dept.

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 Learning Activity No. 1: Situational Analysis

1. After the students conducted a 2. In the classroom of Teacher Z,

science experiment, Teacher A it can be observed that students
asks a volunteer from each group are comfortable with each other.
to discuss the result of their She sees to it that are attentive
experiment and altogether they and motivated in her class.
come up with a conclusion.
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 Learning Activity No. 1: Situational Analysis

3. Teacher X is the primary 4. Teacher N required students

source of information in her to memorize what was in the
class. The students are merely book. She does not allow
listening to her discussion. students’ ideas to be
entertained.
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 Learning Activity No. 1: Situational Analysis

5. Teacher G provided multiple

learning options in the classroom
so learners of varying interests,
abilities, and needs are able to
take in the same content
appropriate to their needs.
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 What are the Various Teaching Approaches?
1. Teacher-Centered Approach

📌 Knowledge is transmitted 📌 The content and

from the teacher to the methods of teaching
students. are decided by the
teacher targeting the
📌 The focus is on teaching/ average students.
instructing/ directing
rather than on learning.
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 What are the Various Teaching Approaches?
1. Teacher-Centered Approach

📌 The needs and interests 📌 Emphasis is given on

of the individual students passive listening,
are rarely considered reading and writing and
while teaching. reproducing things
taught by or as
directed by the
teacher.
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 What are the Various Teaching Approaches?
2. Subject-Centered Approach

📌 The textbook is the only 📌 Real-life situations are

primary source for the rarely taken into
teacher. account while
presenting the subject
📌 The learning of the matter.
students is supposed to
be fulfilled through the
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textbook.
 What are the Various Teaching Approaches?
2. Subject-Centered Approach

📌 There is stress on 📌 Textual questions are

quantity-oriented output used for evaluation
rather than quality. which lacks variety.

📌 All classroom
interactions are textbook
centered.
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 What are the Various Teaching Approaches?
3. Competency-Based Approach

📌 Also known as Outcome- 📌 Examples:

Based Approach - Speak with correct
pronunciation
📌 A competency is a - Counts from 1 to 20
clearly defined and using objects
measurable activity - Finds average
accomplished by an grade from the given
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individual. data
 What are the Various Teaching Approaches?
4. Constructivist Approach

📌 Based on the 📌 Students actively

Constructivist Learning construct their
Theory. knowledge by
connecting new ideas to
📌 Learners must individually existing ideas based on
discover and transform material or activities
complex information to presented to them.
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make it their own.

 What are the Various Teaching Approaches?
4. Constructivist Approach

📌 A constructivist classroom 📌 HOW?

is a Learner-Centered - students’ interest is
Classroom. captured (MI)
- students’ unique skills
📌 Learner-centered involves are maximized in their
making the students attempt to learn (LS)
experience learning. - the teacher scaffolds at
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the proper time (CA)

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 The person who does the
work is the ONLY one
who learns.
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 Look into
several
classrooms
Who is working?
- Teacher
Who is learning more?
- Teacher
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 … the individuals learning the most in [teacher-centered
classrooms] are the professors. They have reserved for
themselves the very conditions that promote learning:

actively seeking new information,

integrating it with what is known,
organizing it in a meaningful way, and
having a chance to explain it to others.
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 Who should
be
working?
The student should be
the worker.
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 Paradigm Shift

Old Instruction Paradigm New Instruction Paradigm

An educational institution An educational institution

provide
exists to produce
exists to

instruction. learning.
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 Paradigm Shift

Old Knowledge Paradigm New Knowledge Paradigm

Transferred from Jointly constructed by

faculty to students and

students. faculty.
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 Paradigm Shift

Old Student New Student

Active
Passive
constructor,
vessel to be filled by
faculty’s knowledge. discoverer,
transformer of
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knowledge.
 Paradigm Shift

Old Mode of Learning New Mode of Learning

Memorizing, Relating,
acquisition of knowledge using and communicating
outside the context in which knowledge effectively to
it will be used. address enduring and
emerging issues and
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problems in real-life
contexts.
 Paradigm Shift

Old Mode of Learning New Mode of Learning

Culture is Culture is

competitive and cooperative,

individualistic. collaborative,
and supportive.
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 When you know better,
you do better.
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― Maya Angelou
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