Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

felicitator

English answer:

facilitator

Added to glossary by Pavala sankari
Jul 10, 2010 13:17
13 yrs ago
English term

felicitator

English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Teachers often act as felicitators
Responses
4 +10 facilitator
Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (2): Kim Metzger, JaneTranslates

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+10
2 mins
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facilitator

Teachers help the learning process. They facilitate learning, i.e. make it easier.

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Note added at 7 mins (2010-07-10 13:24:24 GMT)
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facilitator: A role for classroom teachers that allows students to take a more active role in learning. Teachers assist students in making connections between classroom instruction and students' own knowledge and experiences by encouraging students to create new solutions, by challenging their assumptions, and by asking probing questions.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/misc/glossary.htm
Peer comment(s):

agree Suzan Hamer : Ah, you beat me to it, Kim. // Of course, on second thought, maybe the writer DOES mean felicitator: someone who assists people to be happy? By extension a clown? (I'm not serious....)
2 mins
Anything but the presumptuous "teacher."
agree Patricia Rosas
12 mins
agree Demi Ebrite
3 hrs
agree JaneTranslates : So what's your beef with the very honorable teaching profession, Kim? // Ah. Totally missed the irony. I come from a family of teachers (parents, husband, self, 4 of my five kids counting in-laws) and was ready to bristle!
5 hrs
No beef, Jane. Just a little sad that sometimes our profession is desperate to avoid calling us teachers./I started teaching 40 years ago before the teacher was told to stay in the background and let the kids teach each other.
agree jccantrell
6 hrs
agree Paula Vaz-Carreiro
16 hrs
agree Anna Herbst : I would like to think, however, that I have during my long teaching career been a "felicitator" as well as a "facilitator"...
19 hrs
agree Phong Le
1 day 2 hrs
agree Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
2 days 7 hrs
agree BdiL : Yes, but what poem or tale or novel got its felix magister fallen from heaven? I wonder... (Nice shooting the bull before me, though! Long live teachers! goood teachers. I see very few around, gen'r'ly spicking.) Maurizio
2 days 20 hrs
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