Needs Of Learner-Centered Approach To Improve Metacognition Skills

Abstract

To remove traditional base teaching the modern education system has opted for child-centered education where teaching is not only to give bookish knowledge but also to develop learners’ cognitive thinking and their learning process. Metacognition is a thinking process through which students can think what they are thinking and learner centered approach is a base that bear torch on students’ ability, potentiality, develop their rationality of thinking and thought process of one’s own learning performance. This paper discuss about the requisite of learner centered approach for the development of learners’ critical thinking and their self regulation ability. The aim of this paper is to show how student-centered teaching is helpful to monitor learners’ self-awareness and also the paper highlights on various strategies adopted for the training of metacognitive skills.