Student-centered teaching: Teaching based on students’ characteristics
By Chelsea Winter
EDI 15A Psychological Perspective: Teaching & Learning
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 5, 2009
Today, after learning about moral development, we broke into groups and came up with characteristics of different gender groups at different ages. This was a useful activity because before a teacher can teach a subject, he must know who he’s teaching to. I might be going into teaching elementary school, and because there is a psychological gap between myself and elementary school kids, I have to start thinking like a young kid. I must also try to observe young kids more to pick up on their behaviors and characteristics in order to adapt my lesson plans to maximize the students’ learning.
I had an experience today when I was teaching a home-schooled music class in which I failed to take into consideration the students’ characteristics. I taught a song to the students that bored the young boys more clearly than the girls. We sat on the floor and learned the song, and the boys were distracted, starting speaking to each other when they weren’t supposed to, and became very fidgety.
If I ever teach this lesson again, I will try a different approach. I noticed that the boys sat together on one side and the girls sat on the other. Next time I might try to set up the class so that the boys and girls are sitting together. I might also try to get the boys more involved in the lesson and make learning the song more interactive in order to become more understanding of the different learning styles of boys and girls.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
February 5, 2009
Today, after learning about moral development, we broke into groups and came up with characteristics of different gender groups at different ages. This was a useful activity because before a teacher can teach a subject, he must know who he’s teaching to. I might be going into teaching elementary school, and because there is a psychological gap between myself and elementary school kids, I have to start thinking like a young kid. I must also try to observe young kids more to pick up on their behaviors and characteristics in order to adapt my lesson plans to maximize the students’ learning.
I had an experience today when I was teaching a home-schooled music class in which I failed to take into consideration the students’ characteristics. I taught a song to the students that bored the young boys more clearly than the girls. We sat on the floor and learned the song, and the boys were distracted, starting speaking to each other when they weren’t supposed to, and became very fidgety.
If I ever teach this lesson again, I will try a different approach. I noticed that the boys sat together on one side and the girls sat on the other. Next time I might try to set up the class so that the boys and girls are sitting together. I might also try to get the boys more involved in the lesson and make learning the song more interactive in order to become more understanding of the different learning styles of boys and girls.
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