Importance Of Teacher-Centered Education

Learner-centered education refers to a wide variety of educational programs, learning experiences, instructional approaches, and academic-support strategies that are intended to address the distinct learning needs, interests, aspirations, or cultural backgrounds of individual students and groups of students. It is an approach where students are regarded as subject of learning but not object. This approach developed against the teacher-centered approach to learning where learners are treated as objects to be manipulated. They are considered to be the store deposit of whatever is being taught and deposited to them. Freire calls this educational system as ‘Banking’ concept of education as it allows the learners to memorize the narrated contents …show more content…
Teacher-centered learning fosters a culture of dependency on the teachers/educators and so the learners do not learn to be independent that affects in the learning process. The modern pedagogy main goal is to create strong self-directed learners while teacher-centered learning is quite opposite. A teacher- centered learning environment neither facilitate nor empower a learner’s independent study-skills thus making learning ineffective. This system looks and expects more from the teacher. The teacher impart only his/her views which is considered as crucial yet often times learner find themselves in the midst of crisis due to the varied nature of their personality. The learner remains curious to learn and explore more as the freedom to learn, think, and discover is robbed off from …show more content…
Teacher-centered learning most often doesn’t address the importance of open inquiry which can occur at any stage of the learning process. It does not facilitate the higher cognitive and meta-cognitive skills.
v. In teacher-centered learning, there is no critical assessment of oneself and others as the learner is assessed by the teachers only. The traditional system of education is practiced where the learners is being assessed based on his/her grades and not on the learner’s performance as problem-solver, team member and active learner. vi. In teacher-centered learning, learning environments is based on passively receptive classes and not interactive small groups. It regards learners as objects, adaptable manageable being and a store deposit. Paulo Freire calls teacher-centered learning as the banking model where the teacher task is to fill the learners with their narrated