Running In-Class SAIL Activities

In an active learning classroom, your role is that of a facilitator. Instead of providing students with all the answers, it is your job to give them the background and advice that they need to come up with answers on their own. Therefore, unless you are answering routine questions of procedure or clarification, you will likely want to answer student questions with guiding questions that help them think through the issues surrounding their own questions. Otherwise, if students know that you will give them the answers, then they will learn to rely on you as a source of answers instead of learning how to generate answers themselves.