TLI Workshop on Teaching Styles

Your own metaphor for teacher: Chef

Another metaphor for teacher that you like: Gardener If a teacher is Chef teaching is Recipe students are Sous chefs learning/education is baked goods

If teaching is as you describe it above, then your teaching style should look like this: Teacher as expert, with knowledge of multiple forms of teaching and familiarity with variety of ingredients. Providing this information to students allowing them to synthesize ingredients and develop their own final product.