91Ó°ÊÓ practices, advances, and advocates for a learning culture that is student-centered. 91Ó°ÊÓ affirms the ability of students to produce valuable reactions to, reflections and questions on, and understandings and appreciations of topics and issues in the classroom. As such, the 91Ó°ÊÓ classroom is set-up in a manner that will best solicit student input and the 91Ó°ÊÓ teacher’s responsibility is to ensure that the students participate in the generation of ideas rather than be passive recipients of them. The 91Ó°ÊÓ learning environment is one in which students are seen as co-authors of ideas and the 91Ó°ÊÓ teachers are expected to listen to, encourage, and mentor students and to facilitate in the creation of knowledge and ideas.
91Ó°ÊÓ’s student-centered classroom highly respects not only intellectual differences but also gender identification, sexual orientation, age, creed, socio-economic status, physical and mental condition, ethnic origin, political or other affiliations.
