Student Centered Approaches to Teaching

           

Todays’ topic Student Centered Approaches to teaching which are problem based and cooperative learning. I will give you some brief summarizing for each of them. Firstly, I will start with the problem based learning. In this learning type, remember, the teacher gives the student a topic and then the students do an investigation on that topic as a group. In group, everyone has their own task and at the end, all of the group members collect these information and give a presentation about it. The teacher should give a topic from the real life problems and students find the problems and learn better. With that way, they are gaining problem solving skills. The second one cooperative learning. In this type, student are in interaction and share their own ideas for specific topic. The high level and low level students are coming together and discuss. This so effective for both high and low level students because both of them can improve themselves. That is, to share some ideas, students need to think, study and do an investigation. With this type, student’ communication skills will be developed because they need to express themselves.

            Each of the teaching approaches has an effective for the both student and teacher. Especially, in problem based learning, the student are trying to find the real life problem solutions and because of that, the student understand the life process better. For the cooperative learning, many different student are coming together and this is showing us that they are learning different types of person. They learn also how to work with different people and how to accommodate to the process. I think the problem based learning should take place in the Turkish educational system because I have never heard that this type of learning method was used some schools. As I said, if they encounter some real life problems and find solutions for that problem, they can understand the daily life process easily and accommodate them.