Educators are constantly sharing new information and insights into the science (and art) of teaching and learning and there are ever emerging theories that influence, shape, and direct the practice. Constructivism, social learning, cooperative learning, and transformational approaches are helping to shape an individual teaching philosophy. We all possess an individual teaching philosophy that directs our behaviors while becoming the framework upon which we operate.
Learning Centered Instruction
Despite the notion that students will learn through insightful lectures (if teaching centered approaches to education are done well), learning centered instruction challenges this philosophy through the differences in how students learn.