STUDENT CENTEREDVS

LECTURER CENTERED

Teh Intan NaziraNur Aida

BM 111 5A

DEFINITION

LECTURER CENTERED Is an approach to education

focusing on the lecturer’s teaching

Assumption that students have little or no understanding

Lecturer is the source of knowledge-direct learning

Summative assessment recall/indentify/define ‘facts’

The student therefore expects lecturer to teach them-passive learner

DEFINITION

STUDENT CENTERED Is an approach to

education focusing the needs of the students

It focus on how learning is achieved

Recognition that students learn in different ways

Formative assessment Student build on their

prior knowledge Learning become active

and more social

COMPARISION

LECTURER CENTERED

LECTURER TALKS :

STUDENT LISTEN

FOCUS IS ON LECTURER

STUDENT WORK ALONE

CLASSROOM IS QUIET

LECTURER CHOOSE

THE TOPIC

STUDENT CENTERED

LECTURER AND STUDENTS

INTERACT WITH ONEANOTHER

STUDENTS WORK IN PAIR,

GROUP OR ALONE

FOCUS IS ON BOTH STUDENT AND LECTURER

CLASSROOM IS OFFEN NOISY

AND BUSY

STUDENT HAVE SOME CHOICE OF

TOPIC

LECTURER CENTERED

ADVANTAGES Teachers can be

experts and transmit knowledge

Doesn’t require “good teaching”

Simple structure for lecture and students

It has history of successful use

DISADVANTAGES Doesn’t suit all

learning style Poor motivation and

attendances Discrete boundaries

between subjects Retention problems

STUDENTS CENTERED

ADVANTAGES develop learning and

other skills discover that learning

is interesting and fun more attentive and

willing to participate in class

reports by students increase a teacher’s information.

DISADVANTAGES cannot relate well

the purpose of different styles of learning

have to work in team

hard to corporate within team members

conclusion

So we ask our self do we need to change?

As the profile , lecturer-centered approaches are becoming less and less effective as students are different from 10 or 20 years ago. Therefore , as changes student-centered is more suitable as learning technique in university.

“Tell me , and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will

understand”