Learner Centered

This article focused on the idea of giving the students in your classroom so degree of responsibility in the classroom. The ideas provided included: giving them choices about different types of assessments, coming up with their own classroom rules, and allowing them options as to where they would like to work. By doing this, the teacher is giving the student some of the responsibility for their own learning practices; this idea is important because when students are involved more with decisions in their education, than it will give them ownership and responsibility and they tend to reach higher and farther because they WANT to. Another important piece of this article is the idea that the students in turn must accept the consequences of their actions and the decisions that they make.

I think that the idea of a learner-centered classroom is very important; a lot of these ideas are things that I had already thought of, but I didn't realize that this was a specific "type" of classroom environment. I think that it will be very effective and will prevent a lot of problems and lack of motivation.