Digital Blog Post C

When it comes to teaching, of course there are different actions and steps Educators take to instruct the best way they can. The textbook mentions “Teacher-Centered Approach” and “Student-Centered Approach”. These are methods of teaching and while they are different, they are both very effective. Teacher-Centered Approach is more hard facts, and teaching the same thing to every student so they all understand the same way. This approach is more instructing, and giving out the information.This is a more broad, all across the board type of teaching. No special tactics for different types of learning

    The Student-Centered Approach is more of extending the content and giving the students a way to engage and connect to the content. This method of teaching is more likely to be fixed or altered according to the group of students. When the students find a way to connect to the information given to them they tend to remember and keep that information stored in their head. The Student-Centered approach also helps the students find other ways of learning and they begin to think creatively

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Teacher-Centered Approaches	Student-Centered Approaches
A view that learning is hard.	A view that learning is a natural process.
Learning happens best when content is broken down into small units of instruction.	Learning is best when content is integrated into real-world, problem-solving tasks and activities.
Whole-group instruction.	Whole-group, small group, and one-on-one instruction.
Seatwork by individual students.	Cooperative learning and group projects.
Discussions focusing on factual-recall answers.	Discussions stressing many possible solutions to problems.
Assessments based on worksheets, quizzes, and tests.	Assessments based on students’ projects, performances, and portfolios.

Watch this video on Teacher Feedback!

          Teacher feedback has been going on for years! Students submit an assignment, their teacher writes a comment or two, and is then handed back to the student. Students can either ignore their teacher or learn from their teacher. Feedback is one of the very effective ways students have gotten the opportunity to learn from their mistakes! The modern way of turning in assignments has made giving and receiving feedback a lot easier. Students now turn in their essays, or any other assignments online and they can have access to contacting their teacher without having to see them face to face. Teachers can now edit their students’ papers and e-mail the paper back to them on the same day.

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.