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I think the balance between creative interactive exercises and a more didactic style of teaching is exactly what is needed. Like we’ve said many times before, different students work best in different kinds of learning environments. Therefore, while role playing and story telling may spark the interest of one student and make them a better learner, it might do quite the opposite for another, say shy/quiet student, who may find such an activity stressful and consequently may focus too much on the activity and “getting it right” that he or she may not end up learning as much from it, as he or she would have from the much-hated “throwing facts out”. So, a focus of either creative and interactive or didactic alone would place some of the students at a disadvantage. Since the point is to be the most effective teacher/facilitator, the balance between the two styles teaching would we  the most successful.