Blog Post 5

Teacher Centered Approach

Teacher centered approach means “the control of the class is fully in the hand of instructor”. This idea can seem good in some situations. Actually, it seems that the class will being fully controlled by the person who have got education to educate and direct people efficiently. On the other hand, teachers who want to control the class belonging to teacher centered education should pay attention for some important point. Firstly, they have to plan their lesson in terms of its content, construct, and time. They should prepare objectives students will be achieving and work to get information about their students like their grade level and age group. Also, in terms of lesson content, they should not think that more information means more achievement. They should elect information and obtain its simple version to make it clear. However, they should not forget that preparing a direct presentation of content is not enough because it can be insufficient without diagnosing students’ prior knowledge. Teacher may need to add necessary thinks to the presentation content for prior knowledge of students to lead them to construct a relationship with new information. Moreover, when designing this plan, teacher should not ignore the time which will be being consumed and space because it is really important that the prepared content should be equal with the time given for it and students and teacher should not hurry up when presenting the lesson. Furthermore, attention getting is more important in this situation because holding students’ attention is really hard during long presentation.

Moreover, students should be informed by the teacher about what s/he aims for the lesson and expect from it. S/he should inform the students about objectives of the lesson. Also, teacher should be sure that students does not have any problem in terms of understanding the content and should continuously monitor the students to check that they really understand the content actively. Also, the behavior of the students is important in this situation because students understanding has a relationship with the behaviors of students and how those behaviors are controlled by the teacher. Reinforcement occur in this situation.  It is really important that teacher reinforces students as positive or negative. In all situation, teacher wants to increase an expected behavior but they are not same. Teacher always should belong positive reinforcement because it is accepted that positive reinforcement increases the student’s success and motivation more.

Let’s come to the teacher centered education model again. It definitely needs lesson plan but what about students who will be in the center of this system and their behaviors. Will they need any practice for the lesson? Teacher should assign short, meaningful amounts of practice for the students to use their behavioral thinking in their learning because behavioral learning is an important part of the peoples learning process.