%% #source/book📚 #on/learning [[2021-07-15]] # Learner-Centered Teaching: Five key changes to practice # Big Idea %% *“Teaching, on its own, never causes learning.” (Weimer, 2013, p. 133)* Transferring ownership of the learning from the teacher to the students improves engagement and allows for constructivist learning. The teacher facilitates and questions. The learners manage the rules, the classroom, the direction, goals, and outcomes ## 5 ideas ### Role of the teacher #### Deep Learning - Learning that involves students making meaning - Results in longer/deeper integration of the concepts to the learners lives - Results when INTERNAL motivation is linked to learning - The learners decide the why for themselves - The teacher focuses on the students processes, not the content. Class is a conversation. ### Classroom power differential - Who decides if a class is successful? The teacher or the learner? Historically the teacher decides if the student is successful. What if that fully belonged to the learner? What would the evidence process be? ### Purpose of content - The content is not the purpose of the instruction, instead it is used to give the learner opportunities to experience the messiness of trying out new world views. - Switch from "Cover" to "Uncover" ideas as the instructional process. - Use content to uncover thinking, like [[understanding is mostly a process of clearing up misunderstanding]] ### Ownership of learning - By placing power in the learner instead of the leader, the [[locus of control]] shifts from external to internal making it more likely the learner feels empowered to do the work of learning. This creates a [[Mindset]] for the learner that they are responsible for the work of learning. ### Goals and process of evaluation ## Sources: Weimer, M. (2013). _Learner-centered teaching: Five key changes to practice_ (Second edition). Jossey-Bass.