Date and time: Monday, August 28, 20:00-21:30.
Session Leader: Eszter Simon
Description: The purpose of the session is to introduce students to the idea of student-centeredness. The session will start out from taking a snapshot of participants’ current understanding of ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ before introducing the idea of student-centeredness. Then the class will explore the meaning of student-centeredness at different areas of teaching and in contrast with teacher-centeredness. The session will also seek to deconstruct misconceptions of student-centeredness. The concluding part of the session will explore the question of ‘how one becomes a student-centered instructor?’.
Preparatory reading: None.
Follow-up reading (Recommended): Peter Kugel. 1983. “How professors develop as teachers.” Studies in Higher Education 18(3): 315-328.