TEACHER AS
FACILITATOR OF
LEARNING
ARTICLE III: THE TEACHER AND THE
COMMUNITY
Section 1. A teacher is a
facilitator of learning and of
the development of the
youth; he shall, therefore,
render the best service by
providing an environment
conducive to such learning.
TEACHER AS A
FACILITATOR OFHow
LEARNING
can you do it?
• Make use of teachable moments
What does it mean?
to stimulate and extend
As a facilitator, you plan and
children's thinking.
scaffold children's learning based
• Design the environment
on your understanding of how
purposefully to nurture children's
they learn, their interests, needs
sense of wonder and curiosity, as
and abilities. Observing and
well as eagerness to learn.
monitoring children’s learning will
• Use a wide range of teaching
help you to better cater to their
strategies to engage children
learning needs. To further
actively.
enhance children’s learning and
• Observe and monitor how and
development, you can work with
what children are learning and
families to help children make
use the information to help them
connections between what goes
make connections and build new
on in school and at home.
understanding.
WHAT, WHY, AND HOW IS
TEACHER AS
FACILITATOR?
WHAT
Teachers should develop a learning
environment that is relevant to and
reflective of their students' social,
cultural, and linguistic experiences.
They act as guides, mediators,
consultants, instructors, and
advocates for the students, helping
to effectively connect their culturally-
and community-based knowledge to
the classroom learning experiences.
WHY
Ladson-Billings (1995) notes that a key
criterion for culturally relevant
teaching is nurturing and supporting
competence in both home and school
cultures. Teachers should use the
students' home cultural experiences
as a foundation upon which to develop
knowledge and skills. Content learned
in this way is more significant to the
students and facilitates the transfer of
what is learned in school to real-life
situations (Padron, Waxman, & Rivera,
2002).
• Learn about students' HOW
•
cultures Have Utilize various resources
• Vary teaching approaches to in the students' communities
accommodate diverse • Have members of the
learning styles and language community speak to students
proficiency on various subjects
• Initiate cooperative learning • Ask members of the
groups community to teach a lesson
• Have students participate in or give a demonstration (in
book clubs or literature their field of expertise) to the
circles students
• Use student-directed • Invite parents to the
discussion groups meet the classroom to show students
comprehension and alternative ways of
language development approaching a problem
needs of
How to facilitate your
learners?
1.Make learners aware
Make learners aware of your goals for the class,
the unit, the lesson. Also, make them aware of
what you are doing with the different materials
and activities, why you are using them, and what
you expect them to learn from these activities
and materials.
2. Find out about your students’ goals
Find out about the students’ goals and try to
address those. When possible, select materials
that match student interests and use activities
that are congruent with student goals.
3. Involve your students
Involve students in adapting goals and classroom
content where and when possible.
4. Go beyond classroom
Link the content to the world beyond the
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A facilitator of learning,
therefore, is a teacher who
does not operate under the
traditional concept of teaching,
but rather is meant to guide
and assist students in learning
for themselves- picking apart
ideas, forming their own
thoughts about them, and
owning material through self-
exploration and dialogue.
"A caring adult can make a big difference in
the educational outcome of any child that is
at risk of experiencing educational failure."
-- Maria Wilson-Portuondo
Prepared By: Wellie
Santic
Manilyn Nunez
Janine Manlapaz
