Three Approaches to Teaching

I have been reading a great book lately that's related to education. It's called Approaches to Teaching by Gary D. Fenstermacher and Jonas F. Soltis.

This book talks about different approaches to teaching. This approaches are called: Executive, Facilitator, and Liberationist. I would like to give a quick little description of each.

Executive:
This approach is focused on the teacher. The Executive teacher makes all the decisions of what happens in the classroom and when it happens. Due to education being more and more standards-based the Executive approach is being favored more and more. This approach is focused on the acquisition of knowledge and systematic gains in student achievement. The advantage of this approach is that it prepares students for the work-force. Teachers are viewed as managers.

Facilitator:
This approach is oriented around the relationship between the teacher and students. The thought process behind this approach is that the teacher is only in the classroom to facilitate learning. The responsibility of learning is on the students-they must want to learn. The teacher teaches based on the assumption that students bring their life experience to the classroom and that new learning is based on what they already know.

Liberationist:
(My personal favorite) This approach is oriented around knowledge and how knowledge can be applied. The process behind this is that knowledge and wisdom can expand their existence. I guess that this is why I named this blog expanding horizons, I guess. I was Liberationist without knowing it!

What's your favorite?