Reading 2: Child centered education

Hi everyone!

This week we had to read the second text for our pràcticum. It was called "Child centered education" and I really found very interesting, because nowadays, the students learning has changed, and also their needs. To be able to reach a good education, we need to change our perspective of teacher centered learning, to children learning centered. As the other reading, I will structure this entry in three parts that you are going to read now.

-5 important words: children needs, active-self regulated learning, learning environment, social learning, encourage.

-The main idea: 

The child-centered education helps the children to develop their personality and competencies and also, his needs and individual requirements.


-Three other ideas:

-Social learning helps children to share their ideas and need when they are doing an exercise or a task in class.
-A good learning environment encourages the students to learn in a meaningful way.
-A really good education community is necessary to develop relationships between students and teachers.

During my teacher training, I could not see any child-centered learning. The different schools are trying to change their point of view, and focus more on children. On the other hand, I could see an English room in one of the schools that I was training in year 2 of my degree("Torre Barona in Castelldefels") and also here in "La Ginesta". I really like that structure, because students can focus more in English because they have a good environment with posters and flashcards to follow the lesson.