Teacher-Centered and Student-Centered Pedagogies

Teacher and student centered approach

• Teacher centered approach is in actively involved in teaching while the learners are in a passive, receptive mode listening as the teacher teaches.
• Student-centered learning is personalized, engaging, competency-based and not restricted to the classroom. 

Students and teachers role

Teacher-Centered

Student-Centered

• Focus is on knowledge forms and structures(what the instructor knows about the topic).
• Knowledge comes in chunks and bits; delivered by instructors and gotten by students

• Focus is on knowledge use in typical situation (how students will use the knowledge/subject) in their dally life.
• Knowledge exists in each person's mind and is shaped by individual experience

knowledge viewed with the two approaches

student centered

Teacher centered

• To generate the student with more skills.
• To develop problem solving skills.
• To make learning more fun.
• To advice and support the students. for collecting updated information.
• To develop and reward students creativity.
• Create powerful learning environments.

• To keep full control of the classroom and its activities.
• Developing students critical and creative thinking by providing quality education based on modern educational theories.
• Helping students to apply their theoretical knowledge in teaching in educational institutions outside the university.
• Improve the quality of instruction.

Teaching aim

-All or most classroom activity and talking in Kurdistan region are done by the teacher while students are passive recipient.

- The main assessment for the teacher-center that are commonly used is as follows:

• Instructor talks; students listen
• Students work alone
• Instructor monitors and corrects every student utterance
• Instructor answers students’ questions about language
• Instructor chooses topics
• Instructor evaluates student learning
• Classroom is quiet

Dominant teaching method

Students evaluated by teacher centered:-

Students evaluated by student centered:-

1- creating assignments

2- creating exams

3- using classroom assessment techniques.

4- using concept tests

5- Assessing group work

6- creating and using rubrics

Assessment

1. Peer assessment

2. Use Informal Observation.

3. Allow for Self-Assessment.

4. Provide Multiple Test Formats.

Student center are much preferred by student for the reason that a learner-centered approach does not eliminate the teacher.

• It’s an environment facilitates a more collaborative way for students to learn.
• The teacher models instructions and acts as a facilitator,
• Providing feedback and answering questions when needed.
• It’s the student that chooses how they want to learn, why they want to learn that way and with who.
• Students answer each others’ questions and give each other feedback.
• Using the instructor as a resource when needed.

preferred Class

Conclusion

During the research, the student-centered approach has been much preferred due to these outcomes:

• Students learn important communicative and collaborative skills through group work.
• Students learn to direct their own learning, ask questions and complete tasks independently.
• Students are more interested in learning activities when they can interact with one another and participate actively.

However, the use of teacher-centered approach has been effective for learning. Providing a classroom environment, size, teaching facilities are the key of decision as well. For this reasons, teacher - centered approach is still applied in Kurdistan region.

Conclusion

Reference

Reference

• https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/learner-centered-learning/
• Barr, R. B., & Tagg, J. (1995). From teaching to learning—A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change: The magazine of higher learning, 27(6), 12-26.‏
• http://www.ehea.info/page-student-centred-learning.

Pedagogy Course Second Round

Group 6 (Engineering)

End

1- Sara Serwer

2- Delan Khalid

3-Tava Dhahir

4- Jwan Khaleel

5- Sozan Sulaiman

6- Mawlawi Jabar

7- Imad Ali

8- Ahmed Al-Janabi

9- Haval Sardar

10- Roshna Omar

11- Shayma Hamza

12- Karwan Jalal

13-Luqman aziz