Creating a Community of Learners: Using the Teacher as Facilitator Model

Contributing authors are teachers who function as the students' guides, coaches, mentors, and advisors. Essays include the Following: Facilitating a Natural Way: The Native American Approach to Education by McClellan Hall; The Accidental Theorist: Constructivist Foundations and Applications in a Teacher's Odyssey by Robert Johnson; Facilitating the Lost Student by Bill Nave; Creating the Classroom Climate by Kathleen G. Elam; Building Social Skills in a Learning Environment Greg Brigman; Empowering Students With the Cooperative Edge by Kathleen G. Elam; Creating Community Through Class Meetings by Evelyn Schneider; Answering a Question With a Question by Anna L. Sumner; The Teacher As an Intellectual and Moral Guide by Lydia Tredway; What a State We're In by Diane Sloan; Math for the Fun of It by Kathleen G. Elam; Music for Life by Marilyn Kimbrell; Science Empowerment Through Creative Facilitation by Michael Hughes; Writing for a Real Audience by Janet T. Atkins; Stimulation Through Simulation: How to Interest Students in High School History by Tony Pattiz; From the Courtroom to the Classroom by Teri Johnson Waldoff; Middle Schoolers ACT-ing Out for the Betterment of Their Community by Cynthia K. Stout; Digging Into Their Studies by Michael C. Papritz; Connecting Students and Communities Requires a New Role for Teachers by Robert D. Shumer; Moving From Content Teacher to Content Coach by Edward E. Grunden; and Relating the Education of Business to the Business of Education.