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Learner-Centered Teaching




 
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1-Mr. / Girgis Hanna Haroun, the senior

researcher.


2- 3 of my assistant Colleagues.





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Table of Contents



The Research Structure Plan




Chapter :  1  :  The Research Abstract.


Chapter :  2  :  The Research Introduction.


Chapter :  3  :  The Research Methods and Tools.


Chapter  : 4  :  The Research Results.


Chapter  :  5  :  The Research Outcomes and impact.

 
Chapter  :  6  :  The Research Discussion.


Chapter     7  :  The Research Conclusion.


Chapter  :  8  :  The Research Limitations.


Chapter  :   9 :  The Research Acknowledgement.


Chapter  : 10 :  The Research References.




By :  Mr. / Girgis Hanna Haroun Abdoh.




Abstract



Change is an inevitable part of organizational life and


 if you have any leadership role, you'll soon be called


upon to help lead it. But, we often fear change.


This leads to resistance. So, managing and leading


change is a challenging role. It will take you outside


of your comfort zone and beyond your existing


management and supervision tool-set.


But change is predictable.




You can anticipate how people will respond, and what

 you need to do to engage them positively.

 You can plan, prepare, and handle the resistance

 that will certainly come. To do that, you need

 practical tools and models.


 



Research Content



1-Introduction



1-The Research Vision, Mission and Objectives


The vision is (Developing our Education system)..


The mission is Doing research theses about active

 learning.

The Objectives are:Solving problems that arise

 from education Curriculum which creates passive

 learners that can't solve problems.




2-A problem needs a solution


 We faced a problem that needs a an urgent solution.

 The problem is: We, the researching group, noticed

 that the learning outcomes of high schools and

colleges are low.Learners learn through recitation,

 learning by heart. They don't use their critical

thinking skills.



It has been known for decades that teachers


 can have a profound effect on the students they teach.



Education policies can make a significant difference


 in a teacher’s work, which in turn affects their 


students.


 When expert teachers are actively engaged in the


 development of education policy and initiatives,


 achieving the intended outcomes and avoiding


unintended consequences is more likely.

 



3-Reasons for the research:


The reason for doing such research is that I and my

colleagues noticed that some organizations did not

work as efficiently as they could, and senior managers

 have encountered various problems. Complaints

 were numerous. People worked in terms of only

firm accountability and punishment.



There was no vision, no mission, no objectives,

no team work, no love or respect and no good

 performance. We have been asked to estimate

the situation, analyze it, and come up with solutions

 which could increase efficiency and productivity;

in other words, increase organizational performance.


  The teachers worked individually without any


 collaboration with their managers or school leaders


Teachers did't like change.


They used traditional method of teaching like the


GTM method. Learners were just listeners or stores


 waiting for being filled with some information that


were learnt by heart.



Learners knew nothing about any critical thinking


 like practice, analysis, synthesis, evaluation,


imagination, creation or innovation. They didn't use


 technology in learning. There were no meeting


areas between the organization managers and the


 people who  working with them.



4- The researching questions:


How we make education organizations perform well

 and learning outcomes high?

 




5-The problem solutions


Employers, Headteachers, Teachers, and employees

 must learn academically and practice actually the

 roles played by the activity-based learning methods

 and leave the GTM method of teaching.




6-Objectives:


1- To study the different teaching learning strategies

in language learning.

2- To study the perception of teachers regarding

use of activity based strategy in language teaching.

3-To use critical thinking

4-To observe, experience, collect data and find a

solution for the problem through team work.




Why activity based learning method?


In the process of learning, learners experience,

 memorize and understand. Students need to be

provided with data and materials necessary to focus

 their thinking and interaction in the lesson for the

 process of analyzing the information.

Teachers need to be actively involved in directing

 and guiding the students’ analysis of the information.




The GTM Method:

 In the traditional approach to college teaching,


most class time is spent with the professor lecturing


 and the students watching and listening.


The teacher translates the text and explains the


 grammatical structure without any practice.


 It is a teacher -centered learning method.


 The students work individually on assignments,


and cooperation is discouraged.


In the traditional approach to college teaching, most


class time is spent with the professor lecturing and


 the students watching and listening. The students


 work individually on assignments, and cooperation


is discouraged.



Role of a Teacher


A planner, an organizer and evaluator.

Facilitator.

Decision maker.

Knowledge

Disciplinarian



Active learning:



Student-centered learning, also known as

learner-centered education, broadly encompasses

 methods of teaching  that shift the focus of instruction

 from the teacher to the student.



In original usage, student-centered learning aims to

 develop learner autonomy and independence by

putting responsibility for the learning path in the

hands of students by imparting them with skills

and basis on how to learn a specific subject and

schemata required to measure up to the specific

performance requirement.



Student-centered instruction focuses on skills and

 practices that enable lifelong learning and independent

 problem-solving.  Student-centered learning theory

and practice are based on the constructivist

theory that emphasizes the learner's critical role in

 constructing meaning from new information and prior

experience.


How do you practise active Learning:


1-The above mind-mapped presentation shows you


that in "Active  Learning ", the teacher enables his


learners to think, pair and share. 



A-The word"Think" means that the teacher should


 encourage the process of critical thinking of 


his learners.


The learners must think of solutions to the problems


 they study by themselves under the guide and support


 of the teacher . The learner asks questions like


" What, how, how come, why, where...?". 


Then, he must think of his plan to work by himself


 as an independent learner to do practical learning.


This approach addresses the long memory learning.



 B-The teacher also, encourages his learners to


 "pair", namely, the learner can share his task with


 his pair as a kind of co-operative learning to reach


the lesson objectives. Working in pairs creates


 communication, exchanging views and mutual


evaluation as standards of critical thinking.



C-How lovely is the word "share" in all fields of life!!!


 In education, the word" Share" means that the teacher


 enables his learners to work in group work or a team


 work composed of 6 learners for each group.


The group includes 6 members that play the roles


 of a leader, presenter, a dictator, a writer , a timer


 and an organizer.  These roles can be exchanged.


 There is a good saying.  It says:  " To share, is to care. "


2-Active learning directs the learner to dialogue with


 himself to explore knowledge by himself and dialogue


 with others to communicate till they reach the solutions


 of their problems, researches, cases or projects at the


 time they resort to experimental learning to do, to


 observe the results, to evaluate the results ,


 to reach the truth and to carry out their projects.



3-Activities inside the class through pair work, group


 work and sometimes individual work take place


 through the process of the learner's interaction


with the teacher, with the course content, with his


 pair, with his peers, with the environment and with


 the internet network.



There are activities outside the classroom.


 Resorting to the library to consult the dictionaries,


 encyclopedias and other scientists' works beside


working with actual situations in real life represent


 the learner's activities outside the classroom. 


Outside school activities enable learners to


 communicate with the society and environmentally directly.



Characteristics of learning

 environment are:


Aligned with constructivist strategies and evolved from

traditional philosophies.

Promoting research based learning through investigation

 and contains authentic scholarly content.

Encouraging leadership skills of the students through

self-development activities.

Creating atmosphere suitable for collaborative learning

 for building knowledgeable learning communities.

Cultivating a dynamic environment through interdisciplinary

 learning and generating high-profile activities for a better

 learning experience.



Inductive methods:


 Inductive methods include inquiry-based learning,

 case-based instruction, problem-based learning,

 project-based learning, discovery learning, and

 just-in-time teaching.




Learner-centered methods have repeatedly been

 shown to be superior to the traditional teacher-centered

approach to instruction, a conclusion that applies

whether the assessed outcome is short-term mastery,

 long-term retention, or depth of understanding of

 course material, acquisition of critical thinking or

 creative problem-solving skills, formation of positive

attitudes toward the subject being taught, or level of

 self-confidence in knowledge and skills.

 




2-Materials and Methods


 In order to find out the answer to the research

 question and to fulfill both purposes of the research,

we have conducted a qualitative research.

We used types of qualitative research

methods like an in-depth interview, focus groups,

 ethnographic research, content analysis and case

 study research that are used.



This has been done by interviewing twenty schools

managers and 20 educational leaders or administers

 beside 50 teachers and senior teachers working at

schools and education zones and supervision.



We have tried to talk to representatives of different

 layers of the organizations to make our research

more diversificated and complete.

These semi-structured interviews resulted in 

qualitative data, which had been processed and 

analyzed using coding technique.



My critical thinking workshops lead my participants to

 be more rational and disciplined thinkers.

  It reduces their bias which will provide a greater

 understanding of their environment. 

My workshops provide my participants the skills to

observe collect data, find a proof, propose solutions. 

They analyze, synthesize, evaluate, identify, and

 distinguish between relevant and irrelevant 

information which will provide an incredible boost in 

performance.


 


Our research used 2 methods:


One of academic character, and one of practical 

character.


1-The academic purpose is in investigating 

relationship between organizational structure, 

leadership, and communication and organizational 

performance, i.e. efficiency and productivity.



2-The practical purpose is in giving analysis-based

 recommendations about possible ways to increase

productivity and efficiency to our educational

organizations.



3-We used interviews, lectures, debates,

experiencing, observations, analysis, synthesis,

assessment, feedback and evaluation.



4-We held workshops, modeling, training units

 authentic field practice in actual fields and we

assessed, followed and evaluated what we

recommended academically before. It took 3

 months to conduct our experiences that we

acquired from our professors in East Anglia

 University, England.


 




Outcomes and impact –


My PhD research mustn't be put on a library 

shelf to be stored like the ones that couldn't be 

benefited from.  My PhD a practical  and 

relevant research. It is a message of progress,

 development, promotion and the only solution

 for the problems that people in charge of 

education , planners, administrators, teachers, 

learners, course content authors and people of 

assessment all over the world.





1-My research is Significant :

My proposed research will be academically 

significant. To do this properly, I acknowledge 

relevant existing scholarship and I explain how 

my research will relate to it. I am able to show 

how my PhD will contribute to its field and – 

ideally – indicate some of the gaps in knowledge

 it will aim to fill.




2-My research is feasible / 

doable:



1-Each education association must know that

 the education policy is based on using critical 

thinking skills not just attainment or learning by 

heart.


2- Many training units, workshops, conferences 

and webinars must be held




3-My PhD is worthwhile.:


My research deals with a very vital and important 

problem that causes worry to all people all over 

the world. It is actual. It touches our lives 

everywhere. If we solve the problems of 

education, all programs of sustainable 

development will succeed.



4-I suggest what will become 

possible.


1-Other researchers can use or build upon my 

research results.  My research will close  the 

gaps of the missing relation between the 

education policy,curriculum and assessment in

 academic knowledge.



2- I am ready to do workshops, 

webinars,conferences, training units and 

meetings to do professional development visits 

and meetings for the teachers in my country 

with attendance or through using technology.



3- I can use my global education sites and my 

blog to do professional development meetings 

to all teachers all over the world with attendance

 or through using my sites, emails or the 

university platform..



4- If the people in charge put me in charge of 

implementing my project in my country, I will 

enter classes with the company of teachers and

 senior teachers of English and do model lessons 

based on using critical thinking skills.



5- If I was asked to do professional development 

anywhere, all over the world, I am ready to do the 

same to add my knowledge to humanity.



6- I am ready to be in touch with any university 

or any education association all over the world

 to give a hand .



7- My project is worthy and doable. It doesn't 

cost much money or funding. It is easy not 

difficult. It is very possible.



5-Originality/value



This study depicted a daily life practical Lesson 

Study activity through solving problem method. 

the lesson was: ( Environmental Pollution 

Problem) which focused on the students’ critical 

thinking activity through the integration of PBL 

and learners' work groups in their authentic and 

practical daily life situations.


 


 

5-Discussion



The purpose of the discussion is to interpret and


describe the significance of our findings in light of


what was already known about the research problem


 being investigated and to explain any new


understanding or insights that emerged as a result


of our study of the problem.


 
The discussion will always connect to the 


introduction by way of the research questions or


 hypotheses



I posed and the literature I reviewed, but the


 discussion does not simply repeat or rearrange


the first parts of my paper; the discussion clearly


 explains how my study advanced the reader's


 understanding of the research problem from


where I left them at the end of my review of prior


research.



DISCUSSION provides the explanation and 


interpretation


of results or findings by comparing with the findings in


 prior studies. Then, I can say that: compared to the


 previous study about (Education and Development),


 I say that my research is different .


My research recommended the following:



Role of a Teacher


A planner, an organizer and evaluator.

Facilitator.

Decision maker.

Knowledge

Disciplinarian




Active learning:



Student-centered learning, also known as

learner-centered education, broadly encompasses

 methods of teaching  that shift the focus of 

instruction from the teacher to the student.



In original usage, student-centered learning aims to

 develop learner autonomy and independence by

putting responsibility for the learning path in the

hands of students by imparting them with skills

and basis on how to learn a specific subject and

schemata required to measure up to the specific

performance requirement.



Student-centered instruction focuses on skills and

 practices that enable lifelong learning and

independent problem-solving.  Student-centered 

learning theory and practice are based on the 

constructivist theory that emphasizes the learner's 

critical role in constructing meaning from new 

information and prior experience.


 




6-Limitations



 “The empirical results reported herein should be


 considered in the light of some limitations.”


 Here are these limitations:



1-Time constraints



Just as researchers have deadlines to turn in their

class papers, academic researchers also must 

meet the deadline for submitting a research 

manuscript to a journal.



Therefore, the time available to study a research

 problem and to measure change over time is

 constrained by the deadline of my “assignment.”



I should have Made sure I choose a research

 problem that I will be able to complete well

 before the assignment’s deadline. If time

constraints negatively impacted my study in

any way, acknowledge this impact by mentioning

 a need for a future study (e.g., a longitudinal

 study) to answer this research problem.



2-Conflicts arising from cultural bias and


other personal issues



Researchers might be biased views due to their

cultural backgrounds or perspectives of certain

 phenomena, and this can affect a study’s 

legitimacy.


 Also, it is possible that researchers will have 

biases toward data and results that only support 

their hypotheses or arguments.



In order to avoid these problems, the author(s) of

a study should examine whether the way the

 problem was stated and the data-gathering 

process were carried out appropriately. I found 

a difficulty ,but I did it .



3-More study:


 I suggest additional studies in the future as the

subject of my research is of a national importance

 to my great country. Leading a multicultural team is

 very important.


 




7-Conclusion



  In conclusion, I provide a brief conclusion that ties each

 of the findings together and provides a narrative bridge

to the discussion section of the your paper. We reached

 to the objectives we set before and the vision we dreamed

of through implementing our mission, goals and objectives.

 Through conclusion, I give my recommendations.




 All people at any organization should know and practice

 their work according to the organization principles,

 values, vision, mission, goals and objectives.



All people became loyal to their organization in terms of

communication, responsibility, tolerance, understanding,

good relation, teamwork, love, respect, the ideal

 atmosphere that paved the way to creation and 

innovation.




Also, the leaders worked in terms of communication,

 sharing, mercy, rewards, listening to complaints and

 speaking, justice, responsibility, equality, solving 

problems, Democracy, commercial awareness and 

technical skills.


 


The percentage of the students critical thinking skills


Table  : 1



Overall results from pre to post test in the four tested areas of critical thinking Figure adapted from Swartz, R. (2011). Dammam Critical Thinking Study 2011. National Center for Teaching Thinking.  


Table  :  2



View Resources:


1-Role of assessment 


2-Assessment and Evaluation page.


3-Multiple Choice test requirements


4-Learning / Pedagogy and Assessment.


5-Testing mistakes to avoid. 


6-Online grammar and vocabulary test.


View Resources:

1-Technology in Teaching


2-Using mobile phones in Teaching


3-Using Blogs and social media


4- Corpus-based Learner Dictionary.


5-Film Circles



English Teaching Forum 2004,

Volume 42, Number 2


1-The Psychic Rewards of Teaching


2-Western Culture and Teachingan


3-Why and How to Teach Collocations


4-Reciprocal Teaching


5-Peer Tutoring in an ESOL


6-Letters to the Editor



7-The Lighter Side


8-Maps and Legends


9-An Integrated Skills Lesson Plan



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