Simple, Powerful Strategies for Student Centered Learning

✍ Scribed by George Martin Jacobs, Willy Ardian Renandya, Michael Power (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 108
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reminds us teachers about all the little things we can do to be more student-centric. It shows teachers how to “walk the walk,” and shows teacher educators how to guide colleagues along a student-centered path. The book examines why we should and how we can promote student-student interaction to enable students to learn more and enjoy the process. It also offers simple but effective strategies for enhancing student motivation, a factor that many experts consider to be the most important determinant of success in educational endeavors. In addition, it examines diversity, particularly the many differences that exist among students, and explains simple, easy strategies for how this diversity can be not only taken into consideration, but actively celebrated.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Teachers and Students as Co-Learners....Pages 1-10
Student–Student Interaction....Pages 11-18
Learner Autonomy....Pages 19-27
Focus on Meaning....Pages 29-37
Curricular Integration....Pages 39-46
Diversity....Pages 47-53
Thinking Skills....Pages 55-63
Alternative Assessment....Pages 65-72
Learning Climate....Pages 73-80
Motivation....Pages 81-86
Conclusion: Keepin’ on Keepin’ on....Pages 87-95

✦ Subjects

Teaching and Teacher Education;Learning & Instruction;Sociology of Education