Study Of The Teachers' Role As Facilitators In Students' Learning

This paper is on the basis of the new reform of courses— student-centered, and training the students to learn how to learn and create. The paper is also aimed at improving students' science knowledge and takes seriously teachers' roles during teaching activities. Teachers are no longer experts or supreme in authority. Teachers should' be guiders and facilitators— they should have the ability to guide students to be active to learn. They should be also organizers and instructors to help students to form a system of connections between the learned and to-be-learned knowledge.The paper tries to find the base for theory from Humanism and Constructivism in the first chapter and deals with two basic ways of learning—Inquiry Learning and Tell-listening Learning. It also talks about teachers' roles as instructors, which is also a key point of this paper. In Inquiry Learning, teachers should teach students through how to create situations, how to rouse students' suspicion and how to supply all kinds of support (consultation, instruction, doubt, guidance), and how to provide service such as consulters, guiders and instructors. In Tell-listening, teachers are both instructors who combine learned knowledge with to-be-learned one when teaching and they are providers who supply the clues between the new and old contents, and teachers should be rousers who arouse the students' consciousness of knowledge and experience and pioneering organizers and narrators who present learning materials and its logical order. At the same time, they are audience, discussers and they are even learners in some way.The third chapter explores the strategy in which teachers work as instructors to promote students' learning and help students construct a system of knowledge, which is demonstrated in eleven aspects, for example, how to create situations and inspire students' motivation to learn and how to create questions. The paper especially expatiates creative ways that are meaningful and positive in five respects.At the end, the author explains how teachers, as instructors, should act in teaching through two examples of his own practice and also explains how to advance students to be active in learning and enable students to experience, observe, explore, and discuss by themselves, which makes students feel that knowledge is acquired by themselves through their hands-on experience, and that learning is not difficult but meaningful andchallenging as well.While students are learning, teachers should act as instructors and guiders, which is a updating of teachers' ideas and teaching methods. All this should be presented in teaching. This is the author's voice and the reason for writing this paper.