{"id":10279,"date":"2019-01-16T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/?p=10279"},"modified":"2019-01-16T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:26:49","slug":"both-teacher-and-facilitator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/both-teacher-and-facilitator\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Teacher and Facilitator"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Church is changing, and with it, so must we.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because we are now focusing on being home-centered, all of us are teachers and facilitators. Teachers are always going to be needed in our church lessons, but their role is being enlarged, as a facilitator, by including the entire class in the role as the teacher.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember how we used to say, The teacher always learns more than the student because you have to understand the material before you can teach it? Now, the teacher isn\u2019t expected to know everything but instead spends much of the teaching time inviting others to share answers they have received. <\/span><\/p>\n

Facilitator<\/span><\/h2>\n

The church has recently introduced Self-Reliance classes, led by facilitators. The guidelines for a facilitator are these: (from a Self-Reliant Manual<\/a>, p. iv-v)<\/span><\/p>\n