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Transformation of Education (Hintze, Beyerlein, Apple, College, 2003). Since then many additional facilitator
& Holmes, 2011). Through its lens, we see that shifting guides have been created, perhaps most notably the
practice from educator to facilitator goes deeper than Instructor's Guide to Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry
merely changing practice or doing things differently, as Learning (Hanson, 2006) and the Learning to Learn
Klopp so eloquently noted; it may well be at the heart of Camp Facilitator’s Guide: Training the Trainer (Pacific
the way of being for an educator, involving transforming Crest, 2013); see Figure 2.
no fewer than three aspects of the educational context and
dynamic: control, delivery, and ownership (see Table 1). Pacific Crest has created facilitator guides for a variety of
curricula with the help of invaluable facilitator feedback.
Advancing and Supporting Facilitation One example of high-quality curricula-based facilitator
support that is well worth examining is Learning to Learn:
There are several ways to support faculty who are willing Becoming a Self-Grower Facilitation Guide (Pacific Crest,
to step into the role of facilitator. The Transformation of 2014) (Figure 3).
Education offers tips for transforming practice (from
educator to facilitator) and Klopp notes that faculty can We have found that the Facilitator's Institute provides
encourage and support one another in shifting practice an exceptionally useful environment when it comes to
(1996). An additional strategy is the use of facilitation advancing the practice of facilitation so that it leads to
plans and facilitator guides. These support the shift not transformational learning in the classroom. A wide variety
only to facilitation, but to the development of facilitators of topics and challenges are addressed at a Facilitator’s
who are already comfortable in their role. While it is Institute (see Figure 4), giving faculty an opportunity to
assumed that many facilitators will want to draw up practice and improve their facilitation skills (Apple &
their own facilitation plans (Minderhout, 2007a), Pacific Krumsieg, 2001).
Crest has found that there is much benefit in providing
additional support to facilitators in the form of facilitator Faculty who are comfortable meeting these challenges
guides. The first facilitator guide was created with the are empowered as facilitators and are able to successfully
help of Baker College to support their newly designed transfer ownership of the learning process to students,
math course, taught mostly by adjunct instructors (Baker working to help them become intrinsically motivated to
learn and grow.

Figure 2 Sample Facilitator Guides (Learning to Learn Camp Facilitator’s Guide: Training the Trainer and Instructor’s
Guide to Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning)

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