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Training and Suppprt for teachers
Dear teachers, this month we want to invite you to reflect upon our role in the classroom.
In many occasions, the teacher has a comprehensible and natural instinct to have the control of
the classroom at all times. It is difficult to understand the balance between guiding, leading,
facilitating and controlling the learning process. We invite you to reflect upon the style of each
teacher and, when necessary, to define when each one of these is necessary and correct.
The controller has a clear objective The guide knows the way and takes the rest of
and verifies that everyone meets the the group in that direction, being a little more
criteria he/she indicates.
flexible in the process, but all the same, making
the path according to his/her criteria
The leader knows each member of The facilitator, is an architect of the context, that
the group, knows the path and understands the needs each individual has,
motivates each individual so that by knows the facilitating tools, understand the
him/herself they can contribute to be whole and the parts and manipulates and shares
able to achieve the objective.
in a way that gives the possibility to each one of
the individuals of the group to discover their own
objectives, work on it, achieve it, at the same
time achieving common objectives.
According to these definitions, for us at Edu1st, the ideal is to achieve a permanent
balance between the leader and the facilitator. Only in cases of real need due to specific
behavioral situations do we believe that the function of the guide will be necessary.
We
recommend you work strongly to avoid being controllers and change that paradigm that
education has taught us for years.