Push for a

LEARNER-CENTERED

ENVIRONMENT!

Learner’s Characteristics

and Learning Activities

Presented by:

MARIA ESTELLA RAMOS

Is active learning

simply fun and games?

Doesn’t active learning require

lots of time?

Won’t students regard learning as

a waste of time?

100-200 words a minute generally said

by an instructor•50-100 words are only heard by the student

• students in a lecture class is attentive at 40

percent

• 70 percent of what they hear in the first ten

minutes are retained, and just 20 percent

during the last ten minutes

14 to 38 percent retention if lecture is aided with visuals

The

CONNECTION

Learning new skills and concepts or

engaging in classroom activities

maybe difficult for different students.

Support planned learning activities

and independent learning

Factors affecting

Learners’ Characteristics

1. Area of learning• Should be caring by viewing

learners’ differences as assets

not liabilities

• Should foster clear

expectations and positive

relationships

Factors affecting (cont’d)

2. Facilitator or teacher• Assists students in learning and

development

• invites students to engage in

sustained exploration

• Should be the principal sharer

of the learning context

Factors affecting (cont’d)

3. Work or learning activities• Should be independent and

flexible

• Should engage students in

discussions

• Should foster higher thinking

and problem-solving skills

•Planned by the teacher for individual

pupils, groups of pupils, or the whole

class

•May span to a single or several lessons

connected to a topic, project, or theme

•Can be delivered in a classroom

setting or where teaching and learning

takes place

• Aligned to desired outcomes

• Meets goals and objectivesINTENTIONAL

• Assesses students’ needs

• Tailoring the course experience and using teaching techniques

MEANINGFUL

• efficient

• practicalUSEFUL

“…learning is an active,

constructive process that is

contextual; new knowledge is

acquired in relation to previous

knowledge; information is

meaningful when it is presented

in some type of framework.”

(Davis,1993)