STUDENT – CENTERED LEARNING AND

MOTIVATIONPeru TESOL Enrichment Program

Center for Language Education and Development,

Georgetown UniversityJanuary 2012

Motivation and Student Centered Learning

• Traditional Classroom• Student Motivation• Student Centered Learning Features• Student Centered Learning Models• Student Centered Learning and your goals

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The traditional classroom

• What is the role of the teacher?

• What is the role of students?

• What motivates the students?

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The traditional classroom

• Typically, the classroom is teacher-centered, with the teacher “teaching”, calling on students, directing activity, and evaluating student work.

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Development, Georgetown University

The traditional classroom

• Typically, the student is passive, receiving knowledge and completing assignments and tests.

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The traditional classroom

• Motivation is extrinsic, flowing from the goal of achieving a certain grade rather from the desire to learn for the sake of learning.

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Student-Centered Classroom

• Relies on innate student motivation due to a number of factors…

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Student-Centered Classroom

• Personal Responsibility: assess their own progress toward goals

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Student-Centered Classroom

• Personal meaning: Students relate class topics to their lives

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Student-Centered Classroom

• Decision-making: to the extent possible, students exert choice during the instruction – choice of partners, projects, or primary sources

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Student-Centered Classroom

• Active participation: Students produce knowledge, rather than just receiving it

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Student-Centered Classroom

• Topics relevant to their lives: language topics relate directly to student communicative and academic needs

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Student-Centered Classroom

• Skills relevant to their lives: students learn skills that benefit them directly

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Student-Centered Classroom

• Engagement with peers: Cooperative learning is an excellent tool

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Student Centered Learning and Motivation: Jigsaw

1. Personal Responsibility2. Personal meaning3. Active participation 4. Decision-making 5. Topics relevant to their lives 6. Skills relevant to their lives7. Engagement with peers

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Development, Georgetown University