Kristy #10

I think that my favorite word when it comes to Student Centered Learning is OWNERSHIP. I think that the word ownership perfectly encompasses what student centered learning is all about. Ownership is handing it over to the students giving them charge and responsibility. YET I love that there was focus in this reading about how even though the students do have this ownership in the classroom the role of the teacher is not a peer or a friend, but the teacher still acts as the responsible adult in the classroom, its not student-lead or child –driven, but learner-centered, and this is understood by all, and that is what ownership encompasses, the actual investment of the student. This is what kind of classroom I would like to have, implementing a student centered learning classroom where the students can have ownership in the things that they do and not think its “dumb” or a “waste of time” or “something that they HAVE to do”.