What is a student centered classroom?

What is a student centered classroom?

A student centered classroom is one that is based around the students' needs, not the teacher's. A teacher's curriculum and planning for class should represent what the student wants to learn/needs to learn, not what the teacher has to teach. A teacher can come up with a prompt, or challenge, for the students, but it must be the students that solve the problem, not the teacher telling them how to. In the Maker program, Dr.MC gives us challenges, and we find solutions for them. When Dr.MC told us to build a rover out of LittleBits, she didn't tell us how to do it, she just gave us the challenge. It was up to us, the Makers, on how we wanted to go about doing it. In a classroom, if a group of students were weak in one topic, say, probability, but the teacher only taught geometry, the students' needs would not be met. Instead, the teacher should alter his/her lesson plan to include probability. In a student centered classroom, the student not only enjoys the class, but most importantly, they learn the most.