Month: November 2022

Learning Centres in Schools

“Learning Centres, sometimes also referred to as learning stations, are separate learning spaces in the classroom set up to enable students to work independently of teacher and enjoy learning.”

Image 1.1 – Learning Centre Area

Learning centres can be constructed in any domain or across multiple domains and can be used at any level of education. Ex  Learning centre for mathematics, creativity, music, literacy, small world, etc.

Types of Learning Centre

The mode of categorization has been presented by Myers and Maurer (1987), who classify learning centres according to student responsibility:
 
(1) self-directing/self-correcting,
(2) self-directing/open-ended, and
(3) teacher instructed/exploratory

Self Directing/self-correcting 

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