Horizon of Medical Education Development

A critique of misconceptions about the word student-centered

https://doi.org/10.22038/hmed.2021.57594.1153
Volume 13, Issue 3
Autumn 2022
Pages 5-1
Horizon of Medical Education Development

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Authors

Samira Derakhshanfard 1
Golestan Siah 2
Hamide Babayie 3

1 Center for Studies and Development of Medical Education, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

2 Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Payam Noor University of Urmia, Urmia, Iran.

3 Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Abstract
Student-centered means involving students in the whole teaching and learning process. In other words, in addition to the activity during teaching, this word refers to the activities before teaching, during teaching and after teaching. In many cases, when the word student-centered is used, it refers to an interactive and active teaching method. While the concept of student-centered is beyond a teaching method in which students are actively involved in teaching. In student-centered strategy, the teacher prepares a draft lesson plan and asks students to comment on the specified sections and finally approve and act on it by collective agreement. In many universities, the word student-centered is used incorrectly, or even some professors are not fully familiar with how to design a course plan. This article aimed to clarify the term student-centered by familiarizing with how to write a lesson plan and determine the boundaries of student interventions in the curriculum

Keywords

student
univercity
Teaching
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