Student Centered Learning

A new different approaches have been developed to manage the classroom and a way of students learning, there are divided into 3 categories: teacher centered learning, collaborative learning, and student centered learning.

Years ago was the main concern in education is to use the teacher centered learning which is the main goal of it is to create a learning environment in which management issues are easier to be handled and the information faster to be delivered to students without any problems.

But the main issue of the Ministry of Education within the few years ago is leading the teachers to use the student centered learning approach which helps the students become more self-directed and responsible of their own learning.

Student centered learning is about helping the students to discover their own learning styles, where here the teacher role will changed from a teacher to a facilitator, the teacher will need to help the students achieving their goals and making sure that all of them have get the right information.

In my opinion, I think using this approach is much more valuable for the students simply because it will help them to be creative, more responsible, active in the class, and at the end when they graduated from the school they will be cooperative members in the community.

In the other hand, there are some disadvantages of student centered learning approach such as: that some of the students did not operate well in this approach so the teacher has to spend more effort to teach him/her, also this approach sometimes requires the students to be within a team where some of the students are not able to work in a team and like to work as individuals, and time consuming as well is one of the main problems because student centered learning needs more time.

In our ICT subjects I think it’s more easier to use the student centered learning approach because the students are almost familiar with the tasks they do, so it will be a good way in helping them to develop their skills. From my experience, I have used this model in some lessons which I have noticed that the students are well-known about it, so I let them to work on projects within groups to learn by themselves how to use a specific program.