Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice

✍ Scribed by Maryellen Weimer

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this much needed resource, Maryellen Weimer-one of the nation's most highly regarded authorities on effective college teaching-offers a comprehensive work on the topic of learner-centered teaching in the college and university classroom. As the author explains, learner-centered teaching focuses attention on what the student is learning, how the student is learning, the conditions under which the student is learning, whether the student is retaining and applying the learning, and how current learning positions the student for future learning. To help educators accomplish the goals of learner-centered teaching, this important book presents the meaning, practice, and ramifications of the learner-centered approach, and how this approach transforms the college classroom environment. Learner-Centered Teaching shows how to tie teaching and curriculum to the process and objectives of learning rather than to the content delivery alone.

✦ Table of Contents

Learner-Centered Teaching......Page 5
Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
The Author......Page 27
1 Lessons on Learning......Page 31
Part One: What Changes When Teaching Is Learner-Centered?......Page 51
2 The Balance of Power......Page 53
3 The Function of Content......Page 76
4 The Role of the Teacher......Page 102
5 The Responsibility for Learning......Page 125
6 The Purpose and Processes of Evaluation......Page 149
Part Two: Implementing the Learner-Centered Approach......Page 177
7 Responding to Resistance......Page 179
8 Taking a Developmental Approach......Page 197
9 Making Learner-Centered Teaching Work......Page 214
A Syllabus and Learning Log......Page 233
B Handouts That Develop Learning Skills......Page 243
C Reading Lists......Page 254
References......Page 263
Index......Page 273