The document discusses the various roles of a 21st century teacher, including facilitator, researcher, ethicist, and providing psychological support. It focuses on the role of teacher as facilitator. A facilitator leads and monitors discussions to make the learning process easy for students. As facilitators, teachers act as educational visionaries who create a student-centered environment where students can practice critical thinking skills and discover knowledge for themselves, rather than simply receiving information from the teacher.
3. What is Facilitator?
someone who engages to the activity of
facilitate.
Lead
Monitor
Makes things easy
4. Types of facilitator
• Business facilitators
– work in business, and other formal
organizations but facilitators may also work
with a variety of other groups and
communities.
Role - make it easier for the group to arrive at
its own answer, decision, or deliverable.
• Conflict resolution facilitators
– used in peace and reconciliation processes
both during and after the conflict.
Role- is to support constructive and democratic
dialogue between groups with diverse and usually
diametrically opposite positions.
5. • Small group facilitators
– appointed to accommodate the
engagement of participants, who in small
and medium-sized groups, aim to work
though a particular agenda.
Role- In order to ensure the successful
working of the group, the facilitator is
appointed in place of what would once have
been a chairperson's role.
*Groups that have adopted this model
include prayer groups, men's groups, writing
groups and other community organisations
6. • Training facilitators
– used in adult education.
Role- a person will take a more leading role
and take a group through an agenda designed
to transmit a body of knowledge or a set of
skills to be acquired
• Wraparound facilitators
– facilitators in the social services
community
Role- focus on the foundations of adult
education: establish existing knowledge, build
on it and keep it relevant. The role is
different from a trainer with subject
expertise.
7. • Educational facilitator
- Educators in dialogic learning and
other peer instruction approaches often
serve as facilitators.
According to one common definition,
an educational facilitator has the same
level of knowledge about both education
and the subject matter as a teacher, but
works with the goal of having students
take as much responsibility for their own
learning as possible.