During the past few weeks in Educ 250, we have been visiting different schools to observe a typical hour of instruction at various points in the K-12 progression. We began at Crest High School, where I was placed in an American Civics/Economics class with about twenty students. Although they were definitely bored out of their minds (some were even falling asleep), I really admired the level of deeper-thinking that the high school students were able to reach. Instead of the teacher having to explain every sentence of the US Constitution, he let the students read for themselves and then guided the students in an academic discussion. Students were learning from each other, and his input was only there to guide the students' thought processes. While student-centered teaching can be implemented at any grade level, at the high school level, students are generally mature enough to have an intelligent discussion on a topic without getting too far off track. Although the student independenc...