I’m happy to say that we are already engaged in Learner Center Education in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Some of these include:

a) Cooperative learning where children are placed in small groups to work together on a common assignment e.g. Projects. 

b) Student-centered instruction where students develop skills and practices that enable lifelong learning and independent problem-solving skills.

c) Hands-on learning where students are actually doing something rather than learning about it from books. e.g Agri-Science and the 4-H Club.

The criteria most straight-forward to implement is:

The learner is seen as being unique in meaningful ways.

They have unique backgrounds, circumstances, and starting points with unique strengths, challenges, interests and aspirations.

The most challenging for me:

The learner is seen as having an innate desire to learn.

This is the most challenging for me because I have the responsibility of unleashing that desire. One wrong move on my part could hinder that child’s desire to learn.