Teaching Skills
TEACHING SKILLS Teaching is the art of blending knowledge, art , science and creativity. It constitutes a no of verbal and non verbal acts .The set of related behaviors or teaching acts aiming at specific objectives are performed with an intention to facilitate pupils learning can be called a teaching skill. A professional teacher should identify what all are the skill needed and should practice to master those skills. Dr. Passi 1976 has described the following 13 skills as follows 1.Writing instructional objectives 2.Introducing a lesson 3.Fluency in questioning 4.Probing questions 5.Explaining 6.Illustrating with examples 7.Stimulus variation 8.Reinforcement 9.Using black board 10.Achieving closure 11.Recognizing attending behavior 12.Increasing pupil participation 13.Non verbal cues Although all skills are important and need prac...