Facilitating the Classroom
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Facilitating the Classroom
Robbie StewartBusiness Education Teacher
Fayetteville High School
Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
b. engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources
c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes
d. model collaboration
National Education Technology Standards
Innovative Willing to take risks in their curriculum
planning No longer the knowledge authority
Facilitators
Objectives and Outcomes of Facilitating
Problem-solving skills Self-directed learning
skills Ability to find and use
appropriate resources Critical thinking Performance ability Social and ethical
skills
Self-sufficient and self-motivated
Leadership skills Ability to work on a
team Communication skills Proactive thinking Equivalent with
workplace skills
Teachers as Facilitators ◦ Primary tasks :
guide coach mentor
◦ Co-learners◦ Project-based learning activities
Changing Roles and Increasing Participation
Students as Teachers ◦ Universe of experts ◦ Information available through the Internet
Students can access new and relevant information not yet discovered by their teacher.
Internet-using educators are discovering a new mode of learning that is call "Side-by-Side Learning."
Changing Roles and Increasing Participation
Parent And Community Involvement ◦ “Community" can be found online
Parents, business leaders, scientists, political and labor leaders, and many other members of the community can play more effective and innovative roles as motivators, role models, sources of information, critics, evaluators, guides, and mentors.
Changing Roles and Increasing Participation
Introduce your information slowly Lecture – 5 minutes Ask questions, check for understanding Allow students to work Make the content applicable Learners as Teachers
Tips for Facilitators
What are the essential driving questions we want to cover?
What are the key concepts we want to cover?
What habits of learning do we want to focus on?
What are the assessment opportunities? What resources will be used? How can we differentiate learning? Teams formed?
Overall Planning
Learning Facilitated with Active Strategies
Before: Exact procedure
and knowledge
Lecture
Teacher in command
Written exams
After: Minimalist approach,
shift to active learning strategies
More demonstrations
Students in command of learning
Performance assessments
How I facilitate!
How much time do your students spend listening (to you) compared to actively working independently, interactively, collaboratively?
How “real-world” and “authentic” are your students’ projects?
How many ways may a student demonstrate that he/she has met the course objective?
Facilitating Active Learning Strategies
Edutopia, June/July 2009 By Mitchel Resnick
Make the rest of school like kindergarten Kindergarteners
◦ Imagine what they want to do◦ Create a project based on their ideas◦ Share their ideas and creations with others◦ Reflect on their experience
Kindergarten For Life