From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side

After Reading the board, the notes reminds me of some training I had in a System Approach to Training Class at Ft. Sill, Okla in 1994. The "Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side" was used a lot. I did not really understand it since I was a new Instructor Candidate. However, I've always come back to the same except from Alison King.

Here's another one, an excerpt from an article in College English by Alison King:
In most college classrooms, the professor lectures and the students listen and take notes. The professor is the central figure, the "sage on the stage," the one who has the knowledge and transmits that knowledge to the students, who simply memorize the information and later reproduce it on an exam-often without even thinking about it. This model of the teaching- learning process, called the transmittal model, assumes that the student's brain is like an empty container into which the professor pours knowledge. In this view of teaching and learning, students are passive learners rather than active ones. Such a view is outdated and will not be effective for the twenty-first century, when individuals will be expected to think for themselves, pose and solve complex problems, and generally produce knowledge rather than reproduce it.

From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side
Journal article by Alison King; College Teaching, Vol. 41, 1993