Learner Centered Approach

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4. Answer these questions and share your ideas
according to what you have read about Learner Centered Instruction:

**a.**
What is learner centered instruction (LCI)?

Learner centered instruction is an orientation to
teaching that focuses on both the learner and learning. Major features of LCI
includes personalized learning, social and emotional support, self-regulation,
authentic tasks, and collaboration.

**b.**
What is the main role of the teacher in LCI?

A teacher has the power to build up or tear down a
student's self-esteem and make a student's day or ruin it in an instant. When
interacting with students, a teacher must fill the role of a counselor, a
surrogate parent, a nutritionist and someone who has the best interests of
every child at heart.

c. **Explain the**
4 key principles of student centered learning.

1.    Cognitive
and metacognitive factors

There are different forms of learning processes, for
example, habit formation in motor learning; and learning that involves the
generation of knowledge, or cognitive skills and learning strategies.

Knowledge expands and deepens as students continue to
build links between new information and experiences and their existing
knowledge base.

Successful Learners utilize strategic thinking in
their approach to learning, reasoning, problem solving, and concept learning.

Successful Learners can reflect on how they think and
learn, set reasonable learning or performance goals, select potentially appropriate
learning strategies or methods, and monitor their progress toward these goals.

Learning does not happen without a guide. Teachers
play an important role with both the learner and the learning environment.

2.    Motivational
and effective factors

Positive emotions, such as curiosity, generally
enhance motivation and facilitate learning and performance.

Educators can encourage and support learners' natural
curiosity and motivation learn by attending to individual differences in
learners' perceptions of optimal novelty and difficulty, relevance, and
personal choice and control.

The acquisition of complex knowledge and skills
demands the investment of considerable learner energy and strategic effort,
along with persistence over time. Educators need to be concerned with
facilitating motivation by strategies that enhance learner effort and
commitment to learning and to achieving high standards of comprehension and
understanding.

3.    Developmental
and social factors

People learn
best when material is appropriate to their developmental level and is presented
in an enjoyable and interesting way. Because individual development varies
across intellectual, social, emotional, and physical domains, achievement in
different instructional domains may also vary.

Learning can
be enhanced when the learner has an opportunity to interact and to collaborate
with others on instructional tasks. Learning settings that allow for social
interactions, and that respect diversity, encourage flexible thinking and
social competence.

4.    Individual
differences factors

Educators need
to help students examine their learning preferences and expand or modify them,
if necessary. The interaction between learner differences and curricular and
environmental conditions is another key factor affecting learning outcomes.
Educators need to be sensitive to individual differences, in general.

The same basic
principles of learning, motivation, and effective instruction apply to all
learners. However, language, ethnicity, race, beliefs, and socioeconomic status
all can influence learning.

Assessment
provides important information to both the learner and teacher at all stages of
the learning process.