Classroom Management | IDEA BOOK
38 Peace Corps
Force Field Analysis Example
Proposed change: Incorporate student-centered learning into classroom instruction
Favoring (driving) forces Restraining (opposing) forces
Students learn to take responsibility
for their own learning and thus gain
the skills to become lifelong learners.
It is the teacher’s job to
make students learn.
Through experiential and discovery
learning students acquire
problem-solving skills as they learn.
Experiential and discovery lessons take students
longer; they will not be able to cover all the
required material during the school year.
Students are actively involved
in learning; consequently,
more learning takes place.
Only the bright students will learn. Slower
students will not be able to gure out what they
are supposed to learn and become frustrated.
Student-centered learning allows students
more exibility in adapting their learning
methods to t their individual learning styles
Playing games and group activities
seem like play; students will not take
schoolwork seriously.
When students enjoy the learning
process they are less likely to misbehave.
Teachers will lose face if they are
not the purveyors of knowledge.
Students acquire planning and
decision-making skills as they
participate in student-centered learning.
The national syllabus prescribes what
students must learn. Students might not
choose to learn what is listed in the syllabus.
Students tend to help each
other and learn to work together.
Our school does not have the materials needed
to implement student-centered activities.
Student-centered learning puts the
focus on the student and learning.
Teachers have not been taught how to
teach and use student-centered methods.
Student-centered learning better accommodates
students who are at dierent levels of understanding.
Assigning grades is more dicult when
all students are not doing the same thing.
There is a blank template of this chart at the end of this chapter.
Change is possible
Although change is sometime slow and dicult, it is possible. Some
Volunteers found that with the support of their host countries’
ministry of education, change was welcomed and encouraged.
In the Dominican Republic and in Kiribati, ministries of education
are actively supporting new and innovative teaching techniques
in their schools. Volunteers in the Dominican Republic work with
teachers to implement Quantum Learning techniques—the use