الأربعاء، 20 أكتوبر 2010



Student-Centered Learning

 This educational approach focusing on the needs of the students and putting students first. It requires understanding student's abilities, interests and learning styles. In teacher-centered learning the students are passive but in this approach they are active and the role of the teacher is a facilitator.
But the question is what do we need to apply this approach?
Teachers should have a general expectation of their students then they should collect information about their students and the possibility of applying this style in a successful manner, once the knowledge available you can start.
When I was teaching in a primary school, I used this technique for grade four because the impossibility of applying this technique on the first and second grade because of the lack of adequate skills for self-reliance and they have only one class per week. And this way have succeeded for several reasons, the most important of the number of students for fourth grade (16 students per class) where the division of students into two groups, each group taught the computer for a semester only and the other reason is the nature of the material being taught, where depends on the practical applications .I relied in this way on peers works to insure that each student could get assessment from his colleague without neglecting the  importance of the differentiation of their abilities and of course teacher's assessment .
I noticed that the information proved in student's minds better than the traditional method, but they needed more time especially for teacher's feedback.


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My Name is Zainab Saeed Hubail,I graduated from the University of Bahrain in 2006 with Bachelor of science degree in computer Science .I have alot of working experience. Since 2004, I worked with a tourism company ( International Holidays) then shifted to the educational profession at Al- Baraka Kindergarten as a computer teacher . After that, I worked in the same field but in private school , Arabian Pearl Gulf School (teaching grades 4-10) . In 2007,I moved to the Ministry of Education where I taught computer literacy at Saad Bin Abi Waqas Primary Boys School for two years then shifted to A'ali Primary Boys School .I am currently pursuing a post graduate degree in teaching at Bahrain's Teachers College . At the BTC I hope to improve my teaching skills and methods in the area of Instructional Technology.