Student Centered Classes

My goal for the last three years has been to move to a student centered classroom environment.  Daniel Pink's presentation on motivation highlights three key aspects for personal motivation; choice, challenge/mastery and purpose.  Those are three great principles to organize a class around.  If classes focused on big questions that people cared about, there would be far more interested students.  I know certain things need to be covered in different classes, that is a topic for a later entry. At least in my content their is plenty of room for all three of those to work.  The more classes become student centered, not content centered, the better the learning will become.