Facilitation of understanding. Facilitative teaching seeks to help students “construct” meaning and come to an understanding of important ideas and processes. Teachers in this role guide student inquiries into complex problems, texts, cases, projects, or situations. Their principal methods are questioning, probing, and process-related commentary, with little or no direct instruction.
Coaching performance. Coaching seeks to support the learners' ability. The teacher establishes clear performance goals and the supervises the development of skills and habits through ongoing opportunities to perform, accompanied by specific feedback and modeling.