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LEARNING CENTERS

Mae

if you search the web for definitions of learning centers, you will find alot of them. However, the explanations can be summed up into the one that you have in the file sir gave. It says there....A specific task can be anything from livelihood to academics. So learning centers are specific in a way because they have a few core in mind but broad in terms of the topics they handle. To give you a better understanding, they are basically divided into 3 groups..:)

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DEFINITION• A Learning Center is a

self-contained environment designed to promote individual or small group learning around a specific task.

Mae

if you search the web for definitions of learning centers, you will find alot of them. However, the explanations can be summed up into the one that you have in the file sir gave. It says there....A specific task can be anything from livelihood to academics. So learning centers are specific in a way because they have a few core in mind but broad in terms of the topics they handle. To give you a better understanding, they are basically divided into 3 groups..:)


TYPES OF LEARNING CENTERS

1. SKILL CENTERS

2 . INTEREST CENTERS

3. REMEDIAL CENTERS

Mae

Skill Centers...ofviously this type is centered on enhancing ones skills...


• Learning Centers may also provide

other services such as speech

therapy or Braille reading that help

individuals overcome physical

obstacles.


How do Learning Centers differ from schools?

• They offer more casual environments and individualized instruction

• they are often created with a few core services in mind

• their purpose largely is to supplement existing institutions rather than to compete with them


ADVANTAGES• Individualized Instruction• Active Learning• Flexible

–Self-paced –Medium of Instruction


DISADVANTAGES• Effectiveness

• Cost

PROGAMMED INSTRUCTIONAdd your subtitle or – refers to learning done by individual using printed materials or a computer


ADVANTAGES

● Self-pacing

● Practice and Feedback

● Reliable

● Effective

LIMITATIONS

● Program design

● Tedious

● Lack of social Interaction


PROGRAMMED TUTORING- One –on-one method of instruction in which

the tutor’s responses are programmed in

advance in the form of carefully structured

printed instructions


ADVANTAGES

● Practice and Feedback

● Reliable

● Effective

● Self-pacing


LIMITATIONS

● Labor intensive

● Developmental Cost

Programmed Teaching



DEFINITION:• also known as “direct instruction”• its first and foremost advocates

was B. F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, who has been using its techniques in Natural Sciences 114 since 1957


• principles of programmed instruction in a large-group setting

• groups of 5 to 10 students.

• led through a lesson by a teacher, paraprofessional or student peer


Critical Features of these lesson include:

unison responding

rapid pacing

reinforcement or correction


Personalized System of Instruction (PSI)

Also known as the “Keller

Plan”

First described by Fred Keller in Good Bye Teacher - Journal of

Applied Behavior Analysis (1968)


Fred Simmons Keller


Was a pioneer in experimental psychology.

He taught at Columbia University for 26 years

He died at home, age 97, on February 2, 1996


-- composed of small self-paced modularized units of instructions where the study guides direct learners

-- study guides direct learners through the modules

-- Modules

-- Unit tests - scoring at least a 90%


PSI steps:

• as students complete a unit, they are tested

• immediate feedback is provided by proctor with an opportunity to review and re-test

• student move on to new units after they master previous, prerequisite units, self-pacing through course


• In PSI units, “live” proctors grade student tests and provide immediate feedback on their performance. This one-to-one support is the key component that makes the model “personalized.”

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ADVANTAGES

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Self-pacing

Mastery

Effective


LIMITATIONS

Development cost Behaviorist commitment Self-discipline


PSI Outcomes:

tutored students learn “more” than lectured students

favour individual pacing and appreciate individual attention from proctors

attention for gifted/special education most common, traditionally viewed as too expensive for average classes


The EndGroup members:

Janice Arriesgado

Lovely Grace Gatoc

Princess Mae Livera

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