The Four Negotiables of Student Centered Learning

[Peter Pappas]

One of the subjects that often comes up during walk throughs is how to recognize a student-centered approach. I tell participants to watch the students and try to decide the extent to which they are being asked to manage the four central elements of any lesson - content, process, product and assessment. Any or all can be decided by the teacher, by the students, or some of both. As I often said to my own students when introducing a lesson - "Which elements do you want to be in charge of? Which do you want me to decide? Remember you don't  all have to take the same approach."  more: The Four Negotiables of Student Centered Learning