Learner-Centered Teaching – Where Should I Start?
Are you interested in making students more responsible for their own learning? In this video Maryellen Weimer presents three strategies for learner-centered teaching that are good for dependent learners and are relatively low-risk ways for instructors to get started with learner-centered teaching. Click the question above to view this 20 Minute Mentor video, access the supplemental materials, and/or read the transcript.
In the supplemental materials, Weimer recommends three sources. Two of them are available as full-text at Dunn Library. Here are links to those articles.
- Empowering Students: Class-Generated Rules by DiClemeenti and Handelsman (2005) in Teaching of Psychology
- Setting Course Goals: Privileges and Responsibilities in a World of Ideas by Ludy (2005) in Teaching of Psychology