This material is about how important is work with our student thinking that the center our activity are they, even, we know, try to analize if most of the time we spent talking like 70 % and 30% our students, the good environment for our students is we spent talking nd helping our student 30% and our students spent 70% working in real group, like cooperative learning

1. STUDENT – CENTERED
LEARNING AND MOTIVATION
Peru TESOL Enrichment Program
Center for Language Education
and Development, Georgetown
University
January 2012

2. 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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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

3. The traditional classroom
• What is the role of the teacher?
• What is the role of students?
• What motivates the students?
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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

4. 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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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

5. The traditional classroom
• Typically, the student is passive, receiving
knowledge and completing assignments and
tests.
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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

6. 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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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

7. Student-Centered Classroom
• Relies on innate student motivation due to a
number of factors…
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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

8. Student-Centered Classroom
• Personal Responsibility: assess their own
progress toward goals
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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

9. Student-Centered Classroom
• Personal meaning: Students relate class
topics to their lives
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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

10. 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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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

11. Student-Centered Classroom
• Active participation: Students produce
knowledge, rather than just receiving it
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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

12. Student-Centered Classroom
• Topics relevant to their lives: language topics
relate directly to student communicative and
academic needs
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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

13. Student-Centered Classroom
• Skills relevant to their lives: students learn
skills that benefit them directly
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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

14. Student-Centered Classroom
• Engagement with peers: Cooperative learning
is an excellent tool
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Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University

15. Student Centered Learning and
Motivation: Jigsaw
1. Personal Responsibility
2. Personal meaning
3. Active participation
4. Decision-making
5. Topics relevant to their lives
6. Skills relevant to their lives
7. Engagement with peers
Peru TESOL Enrichment Program
Center for Language Education and
Development, Georgetown University