Page 9 - Learner Centered Teaching

Content Strategies

Strategies for gauging

 Provide students with the question and have them find the answers. Consider

letting them each choose an academic source as one of their required readings

each week. Provide them with strategies for assessing knowledge claims in

advance.

 Provide students with opportunities to evaluate critically their prior knowledge

in light of what they are learning in the classroom. This might take the form of

open classroom discussions or reflective journaling exchanges where your

feedback takes the form of new questions or ideas they can explore.

Strategies for engaging

 Make space in the classroom for co-learning. Group discussions or collaborative

worksheets can help stronger students learn through teaching and weaker

students to learn from peers. Give a ‘quiz’ but allow students two minutes in

which they can change their answers after consulting with a classmate.

 Allow students to engage with content in multiple ways and settings. Record

key parts of your lecture and allow students to access it outside of class time.

Allow time for discussion during class and outside of it. Allow students to meet

with you and discuss their answers on an exam. You may find that they know

more than they were able to communicate during the exam.