Shifting from an industrial-age education model to a post-industrial learner-centered model is an essential part of preparing students for college and 21st century careers, and the process works best ...
Although lecturing can be an efficient way of delivering information, it's not always the best way for students to learn. Instead, use a learner-centered approach to learning. Use shorter lectures in ...
School models are, for the most part, outdated–and very overdue for replacement. When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. But even students ...
There is currently relatively little objective evidence that the much-promoted "learner-centered" approach to teaching is effective, according to new research. Learner-centered pedagogy is designed to ...
Public education abounds with excitement as schools, districts, and communities work together to rethink the ways in which teaching and learning can better suit the needs and abilities of today’s ...
Good teaching has always concerned itself with how students learn and how well they have learned. In this sense, much of the current talk about the learning college is indeed just talk (“A Community ...
Today’s customer-centered colleges and universities are not the learner and learning-centered universities we need. In the neoliberal universe of contemporary Americans higher education, it’s no ...
Throughout the course of the pandemic, we have seen students, families and educators leaning into the unknown. By reflecting on what we have learned and what we want to keep, we may be able to build ...
My first year of teaching began in the stifling basement classroom of a public elementary school in a part of Newark, N.J., where crushed crack vials and occasional shootings were as much a part of ...
Pat Brown is the executive director of STEM for the Fort Zumwalt school district in Missouri and the author of NSTA’s bestselling book series Instructional Sequence Matters: Effective professional ...
University Undergraduate Academic Advising defines student-centered advising as: "...an advising practice that emphasizes mutual respect, dignity, self-awareness, and authenticity. Student-centered ...
There is currently relatively little objective evidence that the much-promoted 'learner-centered' approach to teaching is effective, according to new research. There is currently relatively little ...