ABSTRACT
Student-focused classrooms permanently transform the student’s view of the world in a way that leads the student to continuously learn. Student-centered classrooms emphasize independent learning that will shape the student’s attitudes and accomplishments throughout life, including their increasing expertise in a discipline. What the student does in the classroom affects this transformation far more directly than what the teacher does in the classroom. Faculty do not set out to specifically create one or the other of these transformations. Rather, the students’ experience results from challenges that instructors create for them.
