7. Teacher Roles for Engaged Learning

• Facilitator. The teacher provides rich environments, experiences, and activities for learning by incorporating opportunities for  collaborative work, problem solving, authentic tasks, and shared knowledge and responsibility.
• Guide. In a collaborative classroom, the teacher must act as a guide - a complex and varied role that incorporates mediation, modeling, and coaching. When mediating student learning, the teacher frequently adjusts the level of information and support based on students' needs and helps students to link new information to prior knowledge, refine their problem-solving strategies, and learn how to learn.
• Co-Learner and Co-Investigator. Teachers and students participate in investigations with practicing professionals. Using this model, students explore new frontiers and become producers of knowledge in knowledge-building communities. Indeed, with the help of technology, students may become the teachers as teachers become the learners.