Teachers therefore can impart knowledge and exercise control through their disciplinary expertise. However with the systems thinking approach, these interactions change substantially. Instead, learning becomes more interactive with responsibility shared among teachers and students. The teachers no longer function soley as transmitters of content knowledge. Instead, they become facilitators of learning.
Students play a more active role in their own learning.
The shift often requires teachers to take risks and develop new instructional strategies to facilitate the learning process. They must relinquish deeply entrenched pedagogical behaviors. This creates some fundamental shifts in the way classrooms, teachers and students function. Mandinach goes beyond the ACOT stages to add a fourth one . . . We are left with a real quandary . . .