User:Karina Moreno Rodrìguez

Learner Centered Instruction   Approach   is focused in the characteristics  of learners in order to create lessons according their individual and collective needs. This approach takes in considerations styles of learning, strategies and techniques that provide an active participation and a cooperative learning

Role of the teacher

 * Teachers should be a facilitator during this process.


 * They should help students to understand the lessons through the creation of an environment with inputs and stimuli that support the content and their academic and linguistic needs.


 * It is crucial that teachers apply strategies of teaching that make students realize how they are learning and apply these strategies by their own. In this way, they will become responsible of their own learning.


 * It is important as well that teachers validate students contributions and recognize their progress

Four Key Principles of Learner Centered Instruction (LCI)

 * Learning is personalized:  Teachers should create lessons according the needs of students. in other words, teachers have to identify the levels of proficiency, cultural and academic needs of learners  in order to support group configurations, length of time to do an activity, and  content  of the lesson.
 * Competency - based skills:  S tudents are encouraged by the teacher to develop competences and strength skills.  Teachers have to create language and content objectives according their levels of proficiency and relationship with the current curriculum. It is possible that curriculum should be  adapted to the students needs. An active participation in the class will support a cooperative learning and  the integration of cultures and states of thinking. Teachers should apply strategies and techniques that convey the actual knowledge to the Zone of Proximal Development.  The environment of learning should reflect safety. Opinions, insights should be  valued and respected
 * Learning happens every time, everywhere  Teachers have to create a variated exposures  of knowledge and environment of learning   in order to provide students access to the knowledge and get success.
 * Students take ownership :   Definitely, when a student is engaged, the learning is better and i is responsible of their own learning.  There are  multiple ways to engage students such as :  Create lessons according the students interests, application of their background knowledge as a scaffold to build the new one, Apply cooperative learning strategies that make  students  have a role into the group, and  incorporation of  activities, graphic organizers that benefit the variety of learning styles. It is crucial that teacher should be a guide to learners that contributes in the  creation of their personal learning objectives and self - assessment.