Facilitating the Classroom

1. Facilitating the Classroom Robbie Stewart Business Education Teacher Fayetteville High School

3. National Education Technology Standards 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

4. Facilitators • Innovative • Willing to take risks in their curriculum planning • No longer the knowledge authority

5. 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

6. Changing Roles and Increasing Participation • Teachers as Facilitators • Primary tasks : • guide • coach • mentor • Co-learners • Project-based learning activities

7. 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."

8. 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.

9. Tips for Facilitators • Introduce your information slowly • Lecture – 5 minutes • Ask questions, check for understanding • Allow students to work • Make the content applicable • Learners as Teachers

10. Overall Planning •  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?

11. 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

12. How I facilitate!

13. Facilitating Active Learning Strategies • 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?

14. Kindergarten For Life • Edutopia, June/July 2009 • By MitchelResnick • 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