Student-Focused Pedagogy: A Learning Theory, a Learning Style and Delivery Approach

Instructional Approach It is an instructional approach because the Internet is used as a medium of instruction in the classroom setting, enabling the teacher or instructor to pay attention to individual students' needs in terms of learning. The blackboard's function is reduced to a minimum as a lesson is projected from a server for initial stimulation, at most, a quarter of the duration of the lesson. The idea behind it is to reduce excessive verbal stimulation as learners have limited attention span and information overload. In addition, in the SPF approach, the time that a teacher or instructor spends in writing the material on the blackboard is reduced to minimum. On the other hand, multimedia stimulation is more colorful and rich in content, hence carries more message in context, fostering easy understanding.

Learning Style
Students develop their own learning styles in the traditional classroom. In the SFP approach, these learning styles tend to blend since learners learn using the Internet as a medium at their own pace in the classroom. The learner is involved in the learning process over fifty percent of the duration of a lesson or a course.
The learner watches a video or movie clips embedded in the lesson; answers questions or designs or develops models; solves mathematics problems in the traditional styles using templates with feedback mechanisms; performs physical activities after demonstration.
In the SPF approach, there are four paradigms in the learning process, namely: information, computation, investigation, and performing.
These paradigms can be used exclusively or in tandem with other paradigms. In any situation, the information paradigm is a superset and all the other paradigms are subsets.

Learning Theory
The SFP is a learning theory in that it embodies principles that guide the teacher or instructor to design a course or a lesson.
The SFP focuses on individual learner's development. In developing a student to be a good citizen, all the courses should have meaning, value and career orientation.