So what should we do in our role as teacher? What requirements for teaching
are implied by our discussion of the need to uncover the content to help students
achieve understanding? First, let’s note all the possible teaching moves
we might make, given our goals. We have found it helpful to list those moves
under the three broad categories of teaching types originally proposed by
Mortimer Adler (1984) in The Paideia Proposal. The categories are didactic (or
direct) instruction, constructivist facilitation, and the coaching of performance
(see Figure 10.2).3 Thus, when we talk about “teaching” a unit, we are referring
to three different possible roles the person called “teacher” can play in the company
of learners; we are not defining “teaching” as direct instruction only.