Jim Tysick is an experienced and innovative literacy instructor who works at the Sharbot Lake location of the Northern Connections Adult Learning Centres literacy program. 

Jim created a video about changing his teaching style and methods to increase learner agency and independence. In The Way Forward, Jim describes how he is changing from a “sage on the stage” approach to become a “guide on the side” teacher.

Here are two quotes that inspire and inform Jim’s work:

• The one who does the work does the learning. – Terry Doyle

• The purpose of adult education is to help them learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning. – Carl Rogers

Resources mentioned in the video

Scott Young

• Practice Made Perfect: The 10 Keys to Optimize Improvement

• See-Do-Feedback: The Right Way To Practice

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