Student centered learning is also known as the
learner-centered education in which the learner/student do all the work
and participate in every part of the class lessons, tasks, and activities while
the teacher just facilitates them. This type of learning competency is an
instructional approach that places focus on the students, instead of the
teacher and is aimed at creating independent and responsible learners in the
future. It is beneficial for both learners and teachers as it boosts and
develops learners’ communication skills and allow student to work at their own pace
and to be on tasks and constantly work all the time, and there is no free time
for students to disturb in class. Classrooms with student centered learning
environment consists of student’s work displayed in class, cooperative
learning, and debating ideas arouse from students. It is not a quiet classroom
but a classroom full of responsive and collaborative students in which students
actively participate and respond to each other and mostly their teacher
question. (Education, 2018). According to John Dewey, 1916, he
gives an emphasis on main ideas of roles and experiences of a child. He
believed in the idea that students learn through authentic hands-on activities
and while exploring the environment. Therefore, in student-centered learning
and student could only learn through taking note and listening to the teachers’
explanation but applying hand-on activity and letting them to explore the
environment according to the context of their learning would make the learning
more realistic and understandable to them.
Before my group members and I delivered our lesson to our own
peers, we firstly helped each other in creating and preparing our own lesson plan and teaching aids based on the topic Float
and Sink. After we all set, our teacher checked and signed our lesson Plan,
and then we started our peer teaching. Throughout our teaching, one
of our colleagues helped in observing us and provide feedback related to the student-centered
learning competency. I believed that our lesson delivering was
student centered because we usually put student to work as groups and
especially, we always gave them their chance to train their minds by trying to
guess what the topic would be about based on the poster I displayed to them and
constantly questioning them along about the topic and lesson. The delivering
was very interesting as it touched most part of the effective student-centered learning
where they applied hands-on activity, and they actively participate in every
tasks assigned to them. (see this video for detailed information)
Overall, effective student-centered learning is all about
teacher-student and mostly students-students’ teamwork and it will not happen
or occur when students and the teacher does not collaborate in communicating
with each other. It also not exists in the absence of trust and open
communication between teacher and learners as they both play important roles in
making the classroom a student-centered learning environment. Therefore,
it is necessary for teachers to often adopt effective students learning
competency in their teaching practices and, especially at the beginning of the
term or year as it lets students know what is expected for them to do at the
rest of the weeks or days. (Loveless, 2018)
Bibliography
Education, T. i. (Director). (2018). Student Centered
Learning: Why,How, & What [Motion Picture].
Loveless, B. (2018, May 24). Education corner.
Retrieved from Developing a student-centered classroom: https://www.educationcorner.com/developing-a-student-centered-classroom.html.
