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The individual that came to my mind immediately was my high school art teacher. This
individual was wholeheartedly a learner-centered teacher. She saw me, and all the other
students she had, as more than just students. She recognized us as whole people and wanted
to know about who we were to incorporate that into our art and learning. There are so many
behaviors this teacher exhibited that brought me to this analysis, but one that stands out to me
in comparison to the findings in
Learner-centered environments: Creating effective strategies
based on student attitudes and faculty reflection
is how a core value in being a learner-centered
teacher is, “Developing the ability to evaluate themselves, peers, and the teacher” (Bishop, et
al., pg. 50, 2014). Through our art, she was always ensuring that we took the time to review our
work individually and as a class. The discussions we participated in helped me learn to view my
work more positively and opened my mind to potential improvements for the future. She herself
was always willing to learn and try new things along with us.
One motivation technique that she used to engage me in learning was her love of not
really teaching, but of art. She viewed herself as an artist more than anything and it was so clear
in her teaching that she was devoted to the process and wanted to share that with us. Beyond
that, she would engage in authentic dialogue that made me feel valued as a person, artist, and
student. Beyond that, she was very invested in having us find our own motivation for our work.
Being in the higher level art classes was a choice, so to be there meant you had to want it. She
would work closely with us to develop our goals for the semester and what we wanted to get out
of our work.
Looking back, there were many things that were developmentally appropriate about her
instruction but also things that probably were not. Some of the things that were developmentally
appropriate were a lot of the things that she would teach us about our process and about how to
learn things that were lifelong skills. There are things that I learned in that class that I still apply
into what I do today, even beyond just what I do for my art. Obviously a lot of the learning that
was taking place was art specific, so a lot of what is applied is directly related to art. What I will
say is there were moments that some of the instruction was maybe not developmentally
appropriate in the sense that I do feel she may have sometimes treated us as more of adults
rather than students. maybe not adults, but maybe too much as people over students. She
never crossed boundaries in terms of anything inappropriate, but I definitely think sometimes it
was more of a friendship and or mentorship rather than necessarily a teacher. That is what I
needed at that time specifically and she really did help me grow, but as a teacher now I could
see where there may be some issues in that instruction.
Reference:
Bishop, C. F., Caston, M. I., & King, C. A. (2014). Learner-centered environments: Creating
effective strategies based on student attitudes and faculty reflection.
Journal of the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning
, 46–63. https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v14i3.5065
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