Teacher-Centered vs

Comparison of Teacher-Centered and Student-Centered Approaches in Education

Teacher-Centered Approach:

• Emphasizes the importance of the teacher's role as a reviewer, evaluator, and manager of student progress.
• The teacher's primary focus is to achieve mastery in the development of different activities that facilitate teaching, using appropriate and updated resources.
• The teacher promotes learning by applying a family environment, making it easier to manage the class and educational process.
• The approach helps the teacher to carry out activities focused on research, planning, preparation, and development of the subject.
• The teacher demonstrates authority and expertise in the development of activities that facilitate teaching, using innovative resources for student learning.

Student-Centered Approach:

• Considers flexibility in learning and self-learning, establishing the student's own needs and interests in participating in individual or group activities.
• Encourages independent work, either individually, in pairs, or in groups, with a focus on developing abilities and skills in the learning process.
• Cooperative learning involves the establishment of work groups that lead to active student participation, delegation of roles, and support for academic improvement and interpersonal relationships.
• Inquiry-based learning promotes the student's learning process, encourages research on the material, asks questions, and shares ideas.
• Students learn through guided inquiry, document analysis, and question-and-answer sessions, which can lead to unique skills to solve open questions.
• The approach aims to develop students' abilities to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information, high-level thinking cues according to Bloom's Taxonomy.

Categories of Inquiry-Based Learning:

• Confirmation consultation: Students are asked a question, their answer and the method to arrive at this answer, aiming to develop inquiry and critical thinking skills.
• Structured consultation: An open question and a research method is provided to the students, so that they can draw up a conclusion with evidence.
• Guided consultation: It is carried out through a question open to students in groups, who design the work presenting a conclusion.
• Open consultation: Original questions are asked, support is established in terms of time and consolidated through discussion.