Student Centred Learning

[LG92]

Hi,

Can anyone help define what student-centred learning means, and how it can be used in the classroom?

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, good reading is Carl Rogers and his theory about the human, the person that's at the core of learning expectation.

Quote from amazon.co.uk's book page for Freedom to learn:

This is the text that championed a revolutionary approach to education that changed the way we teach our children. Now, in the Third Edition, its challenging the status quo with twenty years of evidence that defies current thinking. Five exciting new chapters focus on issues of importance now and in the future - learning from children who love school; researching person-centered issues in education; developing the administrators role as a facilitator; building discipline and classroom management with the learner; and person-centered views of transforming schools. Freedom to Learn, Third Edition is written in the first person, with two goals in mind - to aid the development of the minds of children and young persons, and to encourage the kinds of adventurous enterprises being carried out daily by dedicated, caring teachers in creative classrooms and supportive schools throughout the nation.
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I like to look at this as the challenge to an approach that would have you believing one blanket warms all.

In the classroom this applies to how personalised activity planning happens, rule setting, record keeping, target setting, testing, assessments, discipline, rewards & consequences, behavioural management, support services and what the daily routine looks like from an all inclusive perspective and from the viewpoint of each unique learner/child's own individual needs, personality and the duty of care that adults have to safeguard the rights and well-being of each child in their care.

From page 174 of the Level 3 Primary STandL in schools handbook
The importance of a child- or young person-centered approach
All agencies will need to consider the ways in which their approach is child centered, for example, involving the child in meetings and asking for their opinion when discussing matters relating to them as much as possible.

Hth xx