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Danitza Petricio
Paola Massardo
Professor Jamin Casey
HCA
May 13th, 2013
Student-centered educational model
Education is perhaps the most important task a person can do in their life. Education is the health of our brain, and we need to work on it. Its intention is to mentally, physically, and emotionally benefit the person by putting them in a better place than they were previously in before.
Many educators believe, perhaps implicitly, that learning depends primarily on the teacher. The teacher-centered model of education puts all responsibility for decision-making about what is teach, how it is teach, when it is teach, and how learner performance it’s on the shoulders of the teacher. This model locates the student as a passive participant and teachers as active participants in the educational process. However, nowadays education needs more of a student-centered model than a teacher-centered model, because it should have less emphasis on what the teacher knows and more on what the student thinks. But it is difficult to teach effectively if in the past, education has been more teacher-centered than student-centered model.
The methods that are including on this model are active and cooperative learning. Active learning is when the students solve problems, answer and formulate questions of their own, discuss, debate, explain, or brainstorm during class and a cooperative learning is when the teacher and the students participate in the learning process. In this case, we find that the emphasis is on generating better questions and learning from errors that way we are making the students think in their own way. The instructor’s role is to coach and facilitate, but at the same time, the instructor and the student evaluate the learning process. This means that teaching and assessing are intertwined making a process where not only the students will learn, but also the teacher. There are not right answers here and the teacher does not have the last word.
Paola Massardo
Professor Jamin Casey
HCA
May 13th, 2013
Student-centered educational model
Education is perhaps the most important task a person can do in their life. Education is the health of our brain, and we need to work on it. Its intention is to mentally, physically, and emotionally benefit the person by putting them in a better place than they were previously in before.
Many educators believe, perhaps implicitly, that learning depends primarily on the teacher. The teacher-centered model of education puts all responsibility for decision-making about what is teach, how it is teach, when it is teach, and how learner performance it’s on the shoulders of the teacher. This model locates the student as a passive participant and teachers as active participants in the educational process. However, nowadays education needs more of a student-centered model than a teacher-centered model, because it should have less emphasis on what the teacher knows and more on what the student thinks. But it is difficult to teach effectively if in the past, education has been more teacher-centered than student-centered model.
The methods that are including on this model are active and cooperative learning. Active learning is when the students solve problems, answer and formulate questions of their own, discuss, debate, explain, or brainstorm during class and a cooperative learning is when the teacher and the students participate in the learning process. In this case, we find that the emphasis is on generating better questions and learning from errors that way we are making the students think in their own way. The instructor’s role is to coach and facilitate, but at the same time, the instructor and the student evaluate the learning process. This means that teaching and assessing are intertwined making a process where not only the students will learn, but also the teacher. There are not right answers here and the teacher does not have the last word.
References: Edwards, R. (2001). Meeting individual learner needs: power, subject, subjection. In C. Paechter, M. Preedy, D. Scott, and J. Soler (Eds.), Knowledge, Power and Learning. London: SAGE. Allen. (2004). Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education. In Teacher-centered vs. Learner-centered paradigms. Retrieved May 11, 2013, from http://assessment.uconn.edu/docs/TeacherCenteredVsLearnerCenteredParadigms.pdf. O’Neill, G. and McMahon, T. (2001). AISHE. In Student-centred learning: What does it mean for students and lecturers?. Retrieved May 11, 2013, from http://www.aishe.org/readings/2005-1/oneill-mcmahon-Tues_19th_Oct_SCL.html#XEdwards2001.