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• Teacher-Centered Approach


  • Formal Authority
  • Expert
  • Personal Model
• Benefits of a Teacher-Centered Approach

  • Order in the class
  • Being fully in control
  • Class benefits from a focused approach
  • Teachers feel comfortable, confident, and in charge of the classroom
  • Students always know where to focus
• Drawbacks of Teacher-Centered Approach

  • This method works best when the instructor can make the lesson interesting
  • Students may get bored, their minds may wander and they may miss key information
  • Students work alone, missing potential opportunities to share the process of discovery with their peers
  • Collaboration, an essential and valuable skill in school and in life, is discouraged
  • Students have less opportunity to develop their own common and critical thinking skills
• Student-Centered Approach


  • Teachers as facilitators of learning
  • Students are active
  • Collaborative
  • Inquiry-based learning
  • Facilitator
  • Personal Model
  • Delegative
  • Cooperative learning
  • Facilitator
  • Delegator
• Benefits of Student-Centered Approach

  • Shared experience
  • Collaboration and communication
  • Interest in learning
  • Work independently
• Drawbacks of Student-Centered Approach

  • Noisy
  • Less focus on the lecture
  • Classroom management issues
  • Not ideal for some students
• In a traditional classroom, the instructor prepares material to be delivered in class and the teacher moderates
• Online education uses ICT and makes the teaching-learning process student-centered
• The effectiveness of online learning depends on the adaptability of both instructors and learners
• Blended learning is a combination of limited face-to-face and online education
• Analogies for Teaching


  • An art and science
  • Is like fishing - you use different lures for different fish, and different methods for different learners
  • Is like a beautiful music - where instruction and methods are the instruments, and when played together in tune, rhythm and feeling, they become amazing
• Teaching Method


  The way that a teacher adapts to transmit content to students
• Traditional Teaching Methods


  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Bookish
• Modern Teaching Methods


  • Problem-solving
  • Fieldtrip
  • Demonstration
  • Blended Learning
• Additional Methods and Strategies


  • Case study
  • Role-play
  • Group Discussions
  • Jigsaw
  • Concept map/Sketch
  • Debate
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Brainstorming
• The selection of appropriate teaching method depends on the class level and the nature of the subject