Facilitating Learner-Centered Teaching is a textbook that explores the fundamental principles, theories, and practices that REX anchored on learner-centered educational psychologies necessary for effective facilitation of various teaching and learning processes. Lessons are designed using the UPDATERS Framework of the PATEF UPDATE, Inc. The learning outcomes reflected in every lesson provide focus on the targets that need to be achieved or demonstrated by the preservice teachers at the end of each topic. The engaging learning activities hope to facilitate the students’ mastery of the content and enhance their 21st-century learning and innovation skills. Facilitating Learner-Centered Teaching (PATEF)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
TERESITA TABBADA-RUNGDUIN, PH.D.
She is a professor of Developmental and Clinical Psychology. She is also a faculty researcher at the Educational Policy Research and Development Center at the Philippine Normal University (PNU). Her training in psychology started at PNU-Manila, where she took her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and pursued her Master of Arts in Education with specialization in School Psychology. She continued specializing in this discipline at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Tessa obtained her Master of Arts in Psychology in 2010 and her Ph.D. in Psychology in 2011. Her research areas are forgiveness and well-being, development throughout the life span, social cognition, gender, and neuroscience education. Her work in communities and women motivated her to conduct studies on how university programs impact the lives of women. Currently, she spearheads a Commission on Higher Education (CHED)-funded research project exploring warmth and competence as a component of social cognition among students with regard to their teachers.
MARCIA CORAZON PENETRANTE-RICO, PH.D.
She is currently a professor at the Bicol University College of Education, Daraga, Albay. She is also the program adviser for the Master of Arts in Social Studies Education at the Bicol University Graduate School. She obtained her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Bicol University. She was the university’s Most Outstanding Graduate and a magna cum laude, and was adjudged as one of the Pi Lambda Theta’s Outstanding Student Teachers in the Philippines in 1992. She is a demonstration teacher, a researcher, an administrator, an extension worker, a resource speaker in various seminars and conferences, a textbook evaluator, a test item writer, and a winning coach in declamation and journalism contests. She is a member of various professional organizations in the Philippines. She is one of the board members of PATEF-UPDATE, Inc. She is the editor of the worktext Understanding Children and Teens, published in 2014; the author of two field study workbooks published in 2007; and the coauthor of the book Brain-Based Teaching and Learning: A New Paradigm in Education, published in 2016.
MARIVILLA LYDIA BULAN AGGARAO
She is a faculty member of the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Philippine Normal University-Manila—National Center for Teacher Education. She has been a recipient of research grants from the Commission on Higher Education and has presented papers in national and international fora. Aside from being a contributor and a writer of review materials, she is also a module writer and lecturer for the Board and Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers (BLEPT) and other related fields. She holds three licenses: Licensed Professional Teacher (LPT), Registered Guidance Counselor (RGC), and Registered 3 Psychometrician (RPm). Backed up with these licenses, she has been invited as a resource person in various fields. She is a guest lecturer on Human Sexuality, Teaching Skills, and Basic English for the Minor Seminary of Don Bosco and Don Bosco Vocational Schools, and Fundacion Educacion Salesiana (FES), Dili, East Timor. Among her advocacies are climate change and global citizenship. At present, she is a candidate for a Doctor of Philosophy major in Knowledge and Innovation Management at Bangkok University in Thailand, on a scholarship grant under the PNU Research Capacity Building of Faculty Research Policies in Education and Improvement of Curricular Programs.
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