I have been working on a project now for the past 18 months which includes turning a team of old style training designers into training facilitators and finally have some vindication of what i have been droning on about being right.
The pilot course is ongoing for the next 4 weeks and initial feedback is really positive and the atmosphere in the classroom is very convivial to the point that all students look engaged and more importantly the teacher has been able to spot straight away who needs helps and who he can ask to help. Question techniques have gone down a treat, as have the discussion exercises and the context provided by encouraging the questioning and analytical appraoch is giving the students key skills for life.