Learner-Centered Teaching:

The Basics

Karen Mann
Instructional Design & Technology
What is learner-centered teaching?

Students are actively engaged in the

creation of knowledge. Focused on
things that are important to the
learner.
(Adams & Burns, 1999)

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 Why do you think planning is an
important component of learner-
centered teaching?

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Session Objectives
After this session is complete, the learner should be able to:

Structure lessons using appropriate learner-centered

teaching strategies.

Evaluate lesson plan formats that integrate best practices in

lesson development.

Describe strategies that maximize learning.

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Backward Design

Objectives/
Outcomes

Assessment

Content/
Activities

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Rubrics for Online or Blended Course

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Partner Activity (3 min): Turn
to your neighbor and compare
the common components you
noted in the variety of lesson
plans discovered during your
research prior to class.

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Common Components of Lesson Plans
Lesson Making
Objectives/Learning Connections/Prior Content (Multimodal)
Outcomes Knowledge

Active Learning
Assessment Summary
Strategies

Materials/Equipment
Reflection Time Allotted
Needed

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Common Components of Learner-Centered Teaching
Attention Getter
(Connections, Interest,
Motivation)

Homework
(Continuation of Ind. Overview/Objectives
Learning, Prep for next (The Big Picture)
class)

Independent Learning Content

(Formative/Summative) (Multimodal, Chunking)

Active Learning (Formative

Review/Reflect/Summarize Assessment, guided
learning, activities)
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Partner Activity (5 min.):

1. List the common components of

learner-centered teaching.
2. Think about the last class you taught.
What components of learner-
centered teaching did you plan &
integrate?

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Now that we
understand the
components of learner-
centered teaching, how
can we use that
knowledge to better
organize our course
sites in ulearn?
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Other Strategies to Consider
Spacing, Review &
Context Chunking Emotion
Active Retrieval
Multimodal Review Application after Adds another
Different types Reflection 20 minutes cue in the brain
of activities Distributed Media (7-9 to retrieve
Different settings Practice minutes) information
The more Quizzing, Strengthens
senses, the Pretest, Post-test connection to
better! memory
Spreading
learning over
time to build
long-term
memory
Forgetting and
then
remembering

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Reflect & Share (10 min.):

Write down as many teaching

strategies as you can
remember from today.
Choose one that you can
integrate into your next class
and share how you will
implement it.

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 Learner-Center
Lesson Plans
Learning Strategies

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 Think back over the
concepts weve
discussed today. Can
you visualize where
some of these
strategies were
integrated into todays
lesson?
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 What was your
biggest take-away
today?
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