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Breaking Out of The Mold

I find it all too often that instructors, whether it is through ego or fear, have constricted themselves into one, hierarchical, method for instruction. This course seeks to resolve that. It corrects some of our bad habits that we may not even notice by introducing the concept of the facilitator. As instructors, we must find a healthy balance. Far too often, I enter into a classroom where students are disengaged from the lesson because of that lesson's static nature. Facilitators create a dynamic environment involving multiple forms of assessment and as soon as that environment is molded into the classroom, the day to day dynamics change. Students are alert, ready, and more importantly, actively engaged in critical thinking. In my own classroom, I try to implement this method and will improve upon it more due to the lessons learned from the course. Already I have started to change the dynamics of the classroom by implementing more hand outs, videos, group work, and the results are showing!

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