Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice

Learner-cenetered Teaching - 2nd edition - has many new features including research that supports a move to this style of teaching. Many of the examples have been updated to represent the type of activities we now see in the classroom. As the title implies, this book helps faculty think about how their classroom practices focus on student learning rather than teacher output. While a move to this type of teaching can be scary, Weimer's book helps us think about the move in a systematic way, reducing some of the barriers many of us face.

Ed Morgan, Associate Director of CELT with a special focus on assessment

Learner-Centered Teaching, Maryellen Weimer (2002).
Each semester I have taught, I face the same questions: what will the students learn, how will they learn, what can I do to incite more learning among more of the students, and most importantly what will these students remember five years from now. Weimer offers five sustainable changes (all practical and reasonable) in teaching and learning to adjust courses to focus on these sorts of questions. Weimer identifies what changes when teaching is student centered (the balance of power, the function of content, the role of the teacher, the responsibility for learning and the purpose and process of evaluation) and offers show more guidance for implementing the changes. Weimer’s style is friendly and engaging, making this an ideal summer read. show less