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.