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Maryrose C. Mbanefo

Maryrose Mbanefo Post 1

24 July 2020, 9:54 PM

The Role of a Facilitator

The job of the facilitator is to help manage a process of information exchange; he or she addresses the journey rather than the destination. His/her role is that of assistance and guidance and not control. In activity-based learning, there is a wide range of interactions available in the learning- centred environment: Teacher – Pupil, Pupil – Teacher; Teacher – Material, Pupil – Material, and Pupil – Pupil, Material – Material.

All these interactions, engage all the faculties of the students, reduce distraction, and hence maximize learning of creative skills and management problem in the classroom. The facilitation technique allows integration of knowledge from diverse sources through the interactions. The teacher makes the students do the work or bring out the ideas while he provides non- directive leadership. Therefore, the teacher will let student/learners interact with environment (materials), the teacher and themselves, so that they can acquire the scientific skills of: observing, recording, asking questioning, inferring, participating in group work (collaboration), making discovery and conclusion.
I'm Patiboyou Kirong From Togo, west Africa. As teacher educator, i'm much interted in this program

Patibouyou Kirong Post 2 (summarised) in reply to 1

26 July 2020, 9:26 AM
Nice as role. Through this the teacher also can learn from students. This...
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Halima Shuaibu Post 4 (summarised) in reply to 2

26 July 2020, 6:33 PM
Exactly Patibouyou, teachers also lean from their students.
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Halima Shuaibu Post 3 (summarised) in reply to 1

26 July 2020, 6:30 PM
The role of a facilitator is also to be able to build a community and also...
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Michele Deane Post 5 (summarised) in reply to 3

27 July 2020, 7:03 PM
Some really good points in your discussion. I agree, Patibouyou and Halima,...
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Maryrose C. Mbanefo

Maryrose Mbanefo Post 10 (summarised) in reply to 5

9 August 2020, 4:11 PM
Thank you Michele, the teacher addressing the journey is to ensure that the...
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Arthur Nzau Post 6 (summarised) in reply to 1

2 August 2020, 6:04 PM
By engaging learners to be actively in class a teacher can bring out the best...
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Aminu Rufai Post 7 (summarised) in reply to 1

2 August 2020, 9:05 PM
True the facilitators are to trigger the learners interest into the...
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Maryrose C. Mbanefo

Maryrose Mbanefo Post 11 (summarised) in reply to 7

9 August 2020, 4:22 PM
That is it, the teacher moderates the students interactions. Now we are...
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Felix Olakulehin Post 8 (summarised) in reply to 1

8 August 2020, 12:16 AM
Sometimes as facilitators we need discipline to ensure that we give our...
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Michele Deane Post 9 (summarised) in reply to 8

8 August 2020, 4:09 PM
Aminu and Felix, yes! Being a facilitator is really playing the dual role of...
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Doris2020

Doris Njoka Post 12 (summarised) in reply to 9

9 August 2020, 10:15 PM
I am excited about the role of a teacher as a facilitator, because he/she...
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Michele Deane Post 13 (summarised) in reply to 12

10 August 2020, 9:14 AM
Doris, if you weren't able to attend Webinar 2, have a look at the recording....
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Franci Mureithi Post 14 (summarised) in reply to 1

11 August 2020, 4:11 AM
Points well put, Maryrose. The teacher is not neither the owner of knowledge...
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Michele Deane Post 15 (summarised) in reply to 14

11 August 2020, 1:22 PM
I do agree that in LCE, there is a significant shift in the role of the...
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Chimdiebere Joseph Post 16 (summarised) in reply to 1

27 August 2020, 11:18 AM
This is a good one. The facilitator ensures that information exchange is been...
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ERIC Wangila Post 17 (summarised) in reply to 1

19 September 2020, 7:02 AM
a good teacher need to manage, arrange and rearrange to create a suitable...
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