Learner Centered Principles

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Learner Centered principles

• A Practical Approach to Leading a Classroom

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Learner Centered Principles Defined

• Learner centered principles define a classroom
  where students and their learning are paramount.
• The amount versus the quality of content is
  examined to provide a working wheel of knowledge.
• Learner centered principles require a classroom
  of reflection from the student and the teacher to
  create a collaborative environment.
• Learner centered principles require an
  understanding of the brain and how the organ
  processes information.
• Lastly, Learner centered principles align with
  Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligences Theory in
  that multiple learning modalities center on brain
  based learning.

American Psychological Association, n.d. Beers,
2005 Laureate Education, n.d.-h Laureate
Education, n.d.-s McCombs, 2003
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Supporting Learning Via Brain

• The brain is a complex organ that is continually
  changing.
• Neuroplasticity is the brains avenue to change
  as the person experiences new learning.
• The brain works through a reciprocal process
  through the connection of dendrites and axons to
  create a synapse.
• The synapse is then the result of the event and
  becomes stored within the brain via lobes that
  act much like a file cabinet where information is
  stored in a sequence and can be recalled.

Laureate Education, n.d.-s
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Supporting Learning Via Understandings of the
Brain

• 4 Lobes of the Brain
• Occipital Lobe
• Responsible for vision
• Temporal
• Responsible for hearing and sensory perception
• Frontal
• Responsible higher order thinking skills such as
  language and emotion
• Parietal
• Responsible for movement that is NOT reflex such
  as walking and crawling
• Note Should any one of these lobes become
  damaged, the other lobes become strengthened like
  a muscle. When atrophy occurs in a muscle, other
  appendages becomes strengthened to
  over-compensate for the atrophied muscle. The
  same holds true for the brain. When a child is
  born blind, other senses within the frontal lobe
  becomes heightened to compensate for the loss of
  sight.

Fulcher Lab, n.d. Laureate Education, n.d.-s
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Six Considerations for Learner Centered Classrooms
American Psychological Association, n.d.
Laureate Education, n.d.-b Laureate Education,
n.d.-h Laureate Education, n.d.-p Laureate
Education, n.d.-s McCombs, 2003
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Six Considerations for Learner Centered
Classrooms Cont.
American Psychological Association, n.d.
Laureate Education, n.d.-b Laureate Education,
n.d.-h Laureate Education, n.d.-p Laureate
Education, n.d.-s McCombs, 2003
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Implications of Learner Centered Principles

• Teaching to learn
• Teachers become facilitators to learning
• Differentiation is a consideration for every
  child
• Social and Emotional Learning becomes ingrained
  into each lesson
• Students have a voice in learning
• Learning is tailored for each child and their
  ability
• Academic rigor becomes ingrained
• Student achievement soars

American Psychological Association, n.d. Beers,
2005 Laureate Education, n.d.-b Laureate
Education, n.d.-h
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Learner Centered Principles in Practice

• The shift from traditional education to a more
  comprehensive education, especially in high
  schools, has become a source of increased
  research and reform.
• Ford has stepped in with a comprehensive response
  through Ford Next Generation Learning.
• Ford NGL has partnered with urban school
  districts to match business leaders with school
  academies to create the outside in school effect.
• This model also follows the idea of acclimation,
  competency and expertise as students, educators,
  community members and business professionals
  learn and develop together.
• This brings relevant instruction from Fortune 500
  companies and local community leaders into the
  classroom where educators and business
  professionals collaborate to create academic
  rigor and application therein.
• The result is a student who is prepared to meet
  the world because the world has met them.

Beers, 2005 Ford Metro Nashville Public
Schools, 2017
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Learner Centered Principles in a Classroom

• Utilizing a learner centered classroom looks
  vastly different from classrooms of the past.
• Business professionals co-teach with educators
• Business professionals begin to correlate their
  practices with that of school standards.
• The result becomes a true partnership in
  education.
• Each piece is integral to the other and provides
  partnerships within the classroom and in the
  community.

Beers, 2005 Ford Metro Nashville Public
Schools, 2017
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