Learner-Centered Teaching: Where Should I Start?
Program includes a CD with the video presentation, plus supplemental materials, PowerPoint slides, and complete transcript • $99
With learner-centered teaching, students take more responsibility for their learning. It’s an approach that focuses a teacher’s attention on what students are doing and deals with learning processes explicitly.
However, the challenge for many faculty in attempting this approach is the simple fact that many students come to class so poorly prepared to learn. As a result, faculty have a difficult time imagining students being any more responsible for their learning than they already are. The good news, though, is that learner-centered teaching offers simple, straightforward activities that provide teachers with a low-risk way to get started with this approach.
In this program, Dr. Maryellen Weimer will share three strategies that demonstrate how learner-centered approaches can benefit teachers and students.
In just 20 minutes you will learn:
- Concrete activities for implementing learner-centered teaching.
- Low-risk activities that provide you with a starting point in adopting the learner-centered teaching approach.
- Activities for students who tend to be more dependent than independent as learners.
The program also includes supplemental materials that feature iterations of the strategies plus a list of resources for first-time users of learner-centered strategies.
Learning outcomes
At the conclusion of this program, you’ll be able to:
- Co-create a climate for learner-centered teaching in your classroom with a variety of motivational and creative learning activities.
- Let students summarize to increase their learning.
- Use lessons from the first exam to increase understanding.
Learner-Centered Teaching—Where Should I Start? • CD • $99
Each Magna 20 Minute Mentor includes a CD with the video presentation, supplemental materials, a copy of the PowerPoint slides and the program’s transcript.
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Dr. Maryellen Weimer has served as the editor of The Teaching Professor since 1987. She is a professor emeritus at Penn State Berks and one of the nation’s most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching. In 2005 she won Penn State’s Milton S. Eisenhower award for distinguished teaching. Dr. Weimer has consulted with over 300 colleges and universities on instructional issues, and regularly keynotes national meetings and regional conferences. Her book Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practices, is considered the go-to guide for educators looking to adopt a learner-centered approach in their classrooms.