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PROF ED 122: FACILITATING LEARNER- CENTERED TEACHING


CHAPTER 1: Learner Centered Theories of Learning
If you teach a person what to learn, you are preparing that person for the past. If you teach a
person how to learn, you are preparing that person for the future.
- Cyril Houle


WHAT IS LEARNING?

 Any change in the behavior of the learner.
 Change brought about by any experiences and interaction with the environment
 A conscious and deliberate effort to effect behavioral changes among learners in a
positive direction
 A process of bringing together experiences
 Relatively permanent change in a behavior including both observable activity and internal
processes (Burns, 1995)
 Relatively permanent influence on behavior, knowledge, and thinking skills that comes
about through experience (Santrock, 2012)
 Learning occurs when experiences causes relatively permanent change in an individual’s
knowledge, behavior or potential for behavior (Woolfolk, 2016)
 Learning is a long term change in mental representations or associations as a result of
experience (Ormrod, 2015)


ELEMENT OF LEARNING
 A change in behavior
 Change takes place through practice or experience
 Relatively permanent


TYPES OF LEARNING
 Motor Learning- a form of learning to maintain and go through daily life activities.
 Verbal learning- it involves the use of spoken language as well as the communication
devices.
 Concept Learning- A form of learning that requires higher order mental processes;
abstraction and generalization.
 Discrimination learning- It is a form of learning to differentiate between stimuli and
responses to stimuli.