Dear participants,
Congratulation on your rich contributions about how student-centred teaching and learning activities are present in your courses. You will find below a summary of the many ideas you provided. Of course, most of them usually came up in connection to each other.
1. student’s building-up of their own knowledge
2. encouraging autonomous learning
a. adapting teaching to each student’s pace
b. providing students with the necessary material and references
c. flipped classroom
3. using research-action and experiencing procedures
4. promoting group interaction through:
a. team workshops
b. debates after experiencing/action/research (considering issues such as perspectives, procedure, and obstacles)
5. the teacher as a guide towards knowledge-building giving orientation about paths and effective modelling (scaffold)
6. assessing during the process:
a. both the student’s progress and the T/L activity
b. using qualitative criteria for assessment
If you who are still getting familiar with the concept of student- centred teaching and learning, we hope this summary can help clarify ideas. If you can identify most of these guidelines above in your course design, ‘congrats, you are on the right track!’
We’ll be waiting for you in the next forum.
REC-MAT Uva Team