I try to keep my teaching student centered, though obviously I can fall into teacher centered a lot. In teaching very grammar based material, I find that that lends to teacher centered many times. But, I like to make projects for students to learn about vocabulary, novels, etc. so that the students can do work to make it more student centric. I find that the students usually remember these projects and learn better when they do the work. Sometimes though, time constraints prevent projects because students cannot/will not work on projects at home.

I certainly tried to be student centric, although at times throughout the year I was more teacher centric. It is often easier to stand in front of the class and give the kids information than to creatively think of ways to engage them more. I found it to be be far more rewarding, however, when the students were more invovled in their learning. I would like to place a heavy emphasis on student centric learning this year by continually striving to find more activities and ways to get them involved in their own learning.

My teaching methods tended to be more teacher-centered, but my content and how I asked students to engage it was student-centered. Literature has no meaning if the students are not bringing their lives to the discussion. It is my hope to improve the quality of my instruction by using cooperative learning frequently to shift learning back into the hands of the students. I want their brains to be working just much as mine....maybe even more. :)

I tend to be more teacher centric but am trying to be more student centric. To have my classroom more student centric I can have my students be more involved in activities. Allow students to create projects, posters, and presentations are good ideas. Observing and learning from teachers that are very student centric is a great way for me to get ideas to use in my classroom. Taking this class will be quite beneficial in giving me ideas I can use in my classroom. Taking more time in advance to make my lessons more student centric is possible with good planning.

I believe I am 40 percent teacher centric and 60 percent student centric - ish. Having been a music teacher, music is essentially a performance-based discipline. It is inherently student centric and I believe that carries over to the other disciplines. I believe strongly in cooperative group activities - students become more responsible for their material and become more of a community. Activities that foster students helping students would contribute to having a more student centric classroom. Any activity that allows hands-on, interactive learning will lend to making the atmosphere more student centric. Having had teachers who have spent the whole class talking and in some cases reading from the book, only reinforces the folly of going that route. Nothing sucks the creativity and energy out of a classroom faster than a teacher who blathers on.

My teaching style seems to be a mix of teacher-centered and student-centered activities. I notice that the more discipline problems there are in a class, the more teacher-centered I am. With classes that can handle freedom, I am a student-centered teacher. I think that my classroom management will improve as I grow as a teacher, and hopefully I will be able to be student-centered while simultaneously practicing good classroom management. I teach Spanish through Total Physical Response Storytelling (TPRS), in which students learn Spanish through hearing short stories in Spanish. To make my classroom more student-centered, I could have students create more of their own stories in Spanish as a means of practicing their listening and speaking skills. Conversations about Spanish culture can be more student directed.

Excited to be back in Omaha after a nice vacation last week. This was the first morning since the last day of school that I have had to get up and do something in the morning...it's been nice..not gonna lie. I am looking forward to taking ideas from this class and using them in my own classroom. I felt like there wasn't much I could do last year since we only have one computer that can support the internet in each room.

I am not a current teacher, but I feel teachers need to work toward a student centric environment. As a teacher, I will incorporate student activities and involve interaction when possible in each lesson plan. Computer activities, group projects, and presentations will allow students to be hands-on with academics. If students are involved in the daily assignment, they will approach the subject matter with an open mind and feel a part of the lesson. I believe students will take more away from each lesson with a student centric approach.

I am not currently a teacher, but I would like my teaching style to be student-centered. In order to incorporate students more effectively, I will utilize technology. Students can participate in projects using computers, digital cameras, etc. Not only will students learn the subjects, but they will learn about how technology can be used in their lives. I imagine that students will be interested in using technology and that these projects will engage them. Using Google Docs will allow students to work on projects at the same time, so that each student will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities. This will make them active participants in their own learning.

I teach 7-12 art and Freshman speech. I am often teacher centric during speech and student centric during art. I think if I had more access to techonolgy I could be more student centric in all classes. Additionally, art is more hands on and it allows me to be more student centric. I have a limited background in speech and have struggled with making it student centric.

I think my teaching style is teacher centered. I have ideas of ways to be student centered, but I have difficulty implementing that in classroom. I can manage one-on-one student centered interactions but that does not translate well into classroom teaching. Technology use is especially difficult because downtime for trouble shooting does not work well in the middle school arena. Although technology can be difficult to include, it can also be an answer for making students the center or the teaching. Technology helps every student to create rather than just watch. They can create with simple technologies like crayons for every student. It is good to keep students entering the progressing technological world, so items such as document sharing allows for both creation and collaboration.

I would like to be student centric teacher. I would like the students to be actively involved in the learning process as I feel that this is the best way for the students to retain the information. I feel that being a student centric teacher involved more time and planning on my part, so in order to accomplish this I will need to have learning projects and activities designed and ready for the students to become a part of activities. I also feel that bringing a variety of resources, such as the internet, computer programs and other technological devices will allow me to make my classroom a student centered environment. When working with elementary school students I feel that this might be more challenging because I will need to teach all of the subjects and incorporate a lot of basic information, i.e. the alphabet and numbers.l

Since I am not yet a teacher, or at least have not had the opportunity to lead my own classroom, I can only say that it is my goal that my classroom wil be student centric the majority of the time. I would think that it would be necessary to have a combination of the two styles with at least some teacher centric lessons, but I believe the value of a student centric education is very high. I would start by incorporating Socratic style questioning in my lessons - really encouraging the students to think it through on their own and allowing them to explore with trial and error like the teacher in Sid the Science Kid did in the short video. I also think that using group interaction, learning centers and cooperative learning are great ways to make a classroom more student centric. I love all of the creative ways to use technology to get the students to act out their lessons and offer different ways for them to express what they are learning is fantastic.

Being that I have never been in the classroom, I do not know my teaching style. I hope to be a student centric teacher, and I can see how technology would make this easier. Technology allows the classroom to become more interactive, which is conducive for student centered learning. As techonology keeps growing and developing, more and more new tools help facilitate classroom interaction. I am excited to try these new technologies with students. I think that students will greatly benefit from the hands-on atmosphere that technology allows for. The more students can get involved and become active in their learning the more they will enjoy learning. Even though I will one day be teaching at the elementary level, I think that there are many ways to use technology on a simple level. There are so many cool new technologies out there, and I hope to use them in my classroom one day.

hmm...perhaps I should read directions!
I like to think that I am student centered in my classroom. I try to roll with what the kids have to say and create lessons that revolve around what is going on in their lives. Being teacher centered is easier on a lot of days and I will need to work on putting more effort into keeping my room student centered.

My teaching style varies a lot depending on the subject I'm teaching. I think it breaks down something like this:

Math - Very very teacher-centric. I'm not trained in math at all, and I'm often just reciting the textbook, poorly. My saving grace is that I use my class website really effectively with math, which makes things a bit more student-centered.

English - Very student-centered. I love having students write and share their writing, which naturally turns into more student-centered activities. I never teach from the textbook directly in English class.

Religion - I run my classes pretty socratically whenever I can, which is arguably very student-centered. However, I often struggle to create student-centered activities/lessons when the content I'm dealing with is so catechetical and cut-and-dry. Again, technology often lets me work more student-centrically, via class discussion board posts and online sharing of material.

What can I do to make my classroom more student-centric? I'm thinking right now that a huge factor in the student-centeredness of my teaching is how much time I put into planning a unit/lesson. In general, I fall back on my teacher-centric tendencies when I'm skimping out on plan time....

I teach second grade. I use student centered method of teaching in my classroom. I have students work in small groups and students share with the class their feedbacks. I observe that student center appraoch offers students learning opportunities to take responsibility of their learning. My students seem to be comfortable with this method of teaching. For example, students do a lot of collaborative learning in reading, math, science, and social studies.

I use the teacher centered appraoch as well. When I teach new concepts I use the teacher centered method.

My most recent "pure" teaching experiences have been teaching undergraduate seminars in Justice and Peace Studies and a 200 level theology course on the Old Testament. I also teach religious education every Sunday morning during the school year, and do "teach" the Magis teachers, but most of this happens in a sharing/seminar context or as one-on-one collaboration with each teacher in situ.

As a high school teacher, I had a couple of classes during the week that were teacher-centered (mostly interactive lecture) and a few that were student-centric. This worked well for me teaching at an all girls high school, but when I transitioned to an all boys and junior high, I discovered quickly that I needed to change things up more often and back away from lecture as a tool for inculcation.

The seminars I teach at an undergraduate level are completely student centric, and I love it. This is more by course design than my own preference as I tend to be a control freak and you really have to let that go to have a successful student centric classroom.