Why Student-Centered Learning?

To answer the question of why do we, teachers and educators, need to adopt student-centered learning? Perhaps the video will give you the answer.

To become and effective teacher and able to teach effectively, one should understand one's students first. By understanding what kind of students you have, you would be able to adopt student-centered learning more meaningfully rather than just for end of the year appraisal sake. Once you have maastered student-centered teaching methods, your class will be more lively and you will be happy to step into the classroom.

Student-centered doesn't mean letting go of the students 100% to do as they please. The teacher still have to play a role call the facilitator and the teacher must also be a content expert to be able to guide or scaffold students when the need arises.