Child-Centered Learning
3 videos • 730 views • by Language Teaching Professionals This is the first of three videos on how constructivist psychology can be applied in the classroom to make learning more child centered. There are many teachers who seem to feel that if a a class has lots of games, it must be child centered. I am a strong advocate of games-based learning, but, playing games often disguises the teacher-centered nature of a class. If a teacher models , demonstrates, or explains new language targets before the games, I think a class is still teacher centered. The children are still being treated as blank slates. In these videos, I will explore ideas for how to have a classroom learning environment where the children are exploring and discovering new language targets, 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 The ideas in these three videos are based on the theory in these four ' How Children Learn, videos: 🟧 How Children Learn 🔹How Children learn 1 Behaviorism https://youtu.be/SbE-lCXwnng 🔹How Children learn 2 Multiple intelligences, humanistic approaches, and mindset https://youtu.be/LLfCFC3r8Rw 🔹'How Children learn 3 Constructivism, Jean Piaget https://youtu.be/xV-meaYGj4U 🔹'How Children learn 4 An effective approach - George Kelly, Lev Vygotsky 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 I have been teaching and training teachers for forty years and thought it would be helpful to other teachers to make a series of videos where I can pass on some of the things I think I have learned. Some of the videos will be very theoretical and some will be very practical, but most will relate theory and practice and be underpinned by a constructivist student-centered approach. I became fascinated by constructivist psychology while at university nearly fifty years ago, especially by the work of George Kelly, and constructivist ideas have shaped my teaching and writing ever since. I am aiming to post videos to this YouTube channel once a week on Saturdays, and hope to cover a wide variety of topics related to teaching. I hope you will find the channel stimulating. 🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸 A few follow-up links: 🔹 Language Teaching Professionals https://ltprofessionals.com 🔹 Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/LanguageTeac... 🔹 David Paul on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DavidPaul30/ 🔹 Twitter https://twitter.com/home 🔹 David Paul on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/languaget...