"Student-centered learning (SCL), or learner-centeredness, is a learning model that places the student (learner) in the center of the learning process. In student-centered learning, students are active participants in their learning; they learn at their own pace and use their own strategies; they are more intrinsically than extrinsically motivated; learning is more individualized than standardized. Student-centered learning develops learning-how-to-learn skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and reflective thinking. Student-centered learning accounts for and adapts to different learning styles of students (National Center for Research on Teacher Learning. 1999)."
From my experience student center approach is to gave the student the responsibility of his learning ,our society not ready yet, our student not have the enough responsibility to apply these approach .The family not instilled in their children the ambition to achieve and the responsibility of this achievements .
The society behavior is reflect on the school and the teachers and student behavior ,most of our teachers use the teacher center approach because it's fit with theirs needs and available resources , along my experience I didn't see any teacher use student center approach .Also our administration want the teacher takes all the roles inside the class or most of the them , if they don't see us took along the lesson that mean we don't teach .
I used this approach once only with grade 6 in the formatting in the excel program .I divided my students to six groups each group had to use the book and the lesson video that I prepared before the class using the adobe creative, then applied what they understand on their tables that they created in previous lesson, all my role was facilititer .there result in evaluation was amazing ,they get the highest grades in the question that related to formatting lesson. But if my principle interred this lesson she would ask me about my role the dirctied not enough for teacher and I would get low grades in the evaluation.
Our school's administrations must update their teaching knowledge .And push the teachers to use this approach because it have many benefits rather then negatives .
This approach learns the student confidence, responsibility and self steem .This will create a new generation that can confront new challenges, build the country's future and be active citizen.
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