The characteristics of the teacher who uses the Facilitator Approach is one that the teacher is very concerned about her students lives. He/she wants to know everything about the child's life and then incorporate that into his/her teaching. The teacher wants to know the backgrounds of the students so that there can be material to teach about each of the children's backgrounds. All things will be incorporated into the lessons that the teacher teaches.
A classroom that uses this approach would be one kind of like a family. The teacher knows and is concerned about the backgrounds of all the students but the students also know about their peers. They treat everyone with respect and understand that we all come from a different place, whether that be somewhere desirable or not.
I believe there are some aspects of this approach that are difficult for me. For instance, how would one take all the information he/she has about all the students and incorporate all of that into the lessons. I think that you can do that throughout the year, but you will never be able to take everything from all students and put it into a lesson plan. I think that teaching something per week about each one of the students would make this successful.
Something that is effortless about this approach is the getting to know your students. I believe that is something that is extremely important when it comes to teaching. If you don't know your students, how are you supposed to help them?
Over all I believe this approach has some flaws but to me, it is one of the best ones out there!
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