“Student Centered Learning Environments”

Traditionally, American educators have relied on authoritativeness in their classrooms and the always-boring lecture class approach to promote learning among their students. This approach seems to have failed profusely among our nations youth and just by looking back at drop out rate statistics over the past twenty years one can see this approach has failed themselves. Teachers today need to capture student’s attention by becoming a student themselves and by regulating their authoritative positions to a more friend/friend relationship with their students. Not to say that teachers should not play a commanding role in their classrooms, but they should allow their students to learn own and/or with their own convictions also.

Student centered learning is a very effective and important way to organize a classroom and can prove to be very detrimental to a child’s learning experience as a whole. “In a student-centered classroom, the teacher/facilitator must be prepared to relinquish traditional authority, allowing the students to accept greater control over their own work. Mutual respect, dialogue, and freedom are tantamount to the success, indeed the survival, of the student cen

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