We applaud those small groups of teachers who meet and undertake instructional projects to improve their lessons for students. We give kudos to the elementary school grade-level team or the ...

There is an interesting truisms about teaching that people should move from the sage on the stage to the guide on the side. But it seems even harder these days to know how to be a guide for students ...

The role of the educator must evolve into one of “the guide from the side”, the facilitator of skills development, with a greater focus on higher-order thinking skills such as analysing ...

“Any person, ... any study”: it is the phrase heard resounding across the Arts Quad as a backwards-walking tour guide shouts to a shuffling clump of wide-eyed high school students about ...

It has become a cliché, but I’ll use it anyway — inquiry-based teaching and learning changes the teacher from “the sage on the stage” to “the guide on the side,” as students formulate ...

The journey from a sage on the stage to a guide on the side begins with our commitment as educators to children and towards providing meaningful learning experiences. Samruddhi Shetty ...

You behave like a guide on the side. You practice shared leadership. You are explicit about the fact that you do not yet know but that you are committed to finding and defining clarity and direction.

There are few—if any—schools (in the public sector at least) where teachers are just “guides on the side.” Never were! I’ve seen hapless teachers. But not purposely.