Reading for Thursday, October 15

The excerpt from Learner-Centered Teaching can be downloaded here. We will also be reading pages 140-171 in Teaching Tips.

The readings for this week focus on making teaching more student-centered, both in terms of adapting one's teaching in response to what one knows about the students, and putting more responsibility for learning on the students themselves.

In your teaching blog for this week, instead of the standard format we have been using for entries, I would like you to answer the following three questions:

1. What is "learner-centered teaching" (LCT)?
(the three chapters present different versions of this concept)

2. Which aspects of LCT could you incorporate in your own teaching?

3. Which aspects of LCT would be difficult (or, in your opinion, unwise) to incorporate in your own teaching?

For the last two questions, remember to explain why you would or would not incorporate each aspect. Remember to make sufficient and specific references to the readings in your entry.