STEPS TOWARD BECOMING A SELF-DIRECTED LEARNER An excerpt from The Teaching Professor,Vol 10, No 4, April 1996. Gerald Grow discusses his four stage theory of how students advance from dependency to autonomy. He also describes the type of teaching that encourages learning at each stage.
Learner Centered Psychological Principles Discusses twelve psychological principles as a basis for school reform and redesign. Included are cognitive, affective, developmental, social and individual factors that affect learning.
Excerpts from Creating Learner-Centered Classrooms and Schools (in press) Describes the important features of child centered schools and classrooms - including the belief that children want to learn and the school/teacher should deal with any outside interferences (e.g. difficulties at home, etc.).
Learner-centered Principles These principles are used in the TREE(Technology-Rich Educational Environment) program. It includes three grades that uses a project-based curriculum where the students are responsible for their learning.
LEARNER-CENTERED EDUCATION An assortment of papers that discuss project-based curriculum with a child-centered approach using computers. The papers use different teaching strategies, but all use technology in the classroom. A unique collection of papers!
NES: Hot Topics: From Discipline to Responsibility Allen Mendler describes a memory in which a teacher puishes him for not doing something correctly. He also discusses how teachers who are child centered give children choices and make them responsible for their own learning. Mendler seems to encourage active learners vs. the passive learners of his early school experience.
Learning-centered approach using the Web Explains why there has been a shift toward student centered learning and how it affects the use of technology in the classroom. Discusses the use of the World Wide Web's affect on teachers, students and the curriculum.
studentcentered.txt Chris Bradbury examines the student-centered classroom by using the analogy of a softball game. The teacher is the coach who is more of an advisor than teacher and the class/team takes the lead role in learning.
Is Lanikai a student-centered school Lanikai is a student-centered public charter school on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. A 1995 parental survey encouraged the administration to seek charter school status under a newly enacted state law that allows public schools to become charter schools.
Hawaiian Legislation for School Reform Summary of Act 272 of the Hawaii State Legislature that allows for public schools to become student-centered charter schools.
Chapter 2 The Literature Review section of a research project which presents some ideas of what student-centered learning is and is not.
Structuring Schools to Support Learner-Centered Classrooms Discusses the goals and key practices of school reform to support student-centered classrooms in Massachusetts. Also describes challenges to school reform and how Massachusetts Board of Education intends to overcome those challenges.
Student Centered Projects A homepage that discusses how to create student driven projects. Includes information on materials, time and others concerns of student driven project first-timers. Great for basic information!
Student centered learning Abstracts from articles based on the experiences of two instructors who use student-centered approach to teach a class in the business world.
Student Centered Learning Brief definitions of student-centered learning theory broken into categories of development, student choice, collaboration, assessment and teacher attitude.
