teaching skills

1. Identify the Attitude and
Teaching Skills of an Effective
Teacher
By
Dr Surendra Pal Singh
Assistant Professor
D.S.College, Aligarh

2. Meaning of Teaching
•Teaching is the process of attending to
people's needs, experiences and feelings,
and intervening so that they learn
particular things, and go beyond the given.
According to B.O.Smith: Teaching is a
system of actions intended to produce
learning.

4. Effective Teaching
Effective teaching can be defined in many ways
including:
• Teacher Behaviour (warmth, civility, clarity),
• Teacher knowledge (of subject matter, of
students),
• Teacher beliefs, and so forth.
• Here we define effective teaching as the
ability to improve student achievement.

7. Modifications of Teacher Behaviour
• Interaction Analysis
• Transactional Analysis
• Action Research
• Micro-Teaching
• Role Playing
• Teacher Evaluation
• Online Courses

8. Teaching Skills
• Teaching skills are specific instructional activities
and procedures that a teacher may use in his
classroom. These are related to the various stages
of teaching or in continuous flow of the teacher
performance.
• Indian Institute for teacher education : specially
those activities of teaching that are specially
effective in bringing about desired change in
pupils.

9. Characteristics of teaching skills
1.Identifiable – Teaching skills can be identified by analyzing
teaching behaviours. Allen & Ryan (1969) identified 14 skills of
teaching.
2.Observable – Teaching skills can be observed and this is the
reason they have been identified.
3.Trainable – We can train pupil teachers in using these skills
which can be developed through instruction and training.
4.Measurable – Teaching skills can be measured by simple
observation, by making observation schedule and check list.
5.Perception, cognition and action are three basic components
of teaching skills.

10. Allen and Ryan listed the following
teaching skills
• 1. Stimulus Variation
• 2. Set induction
• 3. Closure
• 4. Teacher silence and non-verbal cues
• 5. Reinforcing pupil participation
• 6. Fluency in questioning
• 7. Probing questioning
• 8. Use of higher questions
• 9. Divergent questions
• 10. Recognizing and attending behaviour
• 11. Illustrating and use of examples
• 12. Lecturing
• 13. Planned repetition
• 14. Completeness of communication

11. B.K. Passi, list of Teaching Skills
• 1. Writing instructional objectives
• 2. Introducing a lesson
• 3. Fluency in questioning
• 4. Probing questioning
• 5. Explaining
• 6. Illustrating with examples
• 7. Stimulus variation
• 8. Silence and non-verbal cues
• 9. Reinforcement
• 10. Increasing pupil participation
• 11. Using black board
• 12. Achieving Closure
• 13. Recognizing attending behavior

12. Core Teaching Skills
1. Skill of probing Questions
2. Skill of explaining
3. Skill of illustrating With Examples
4. Skill of stimulus Variation
5. Skill of reinforcement
6. Skill of questioning
7. Skill of using Blackboard
8. Skill of introducing a lesson

13. Effective Teaching
• Professional Knowledge and skills
• Commitment, Motivation and Caring

14. Professional knowledge
• Subject Matter competency
• Instructional strategies
– Constructivist approach
– Direct Instruction Approach
– Goal setting and instructional planning
– Developmentally appropriate teaching practice

15. Subject -Matter competence
• Teachers knowledge about their subject
• Having a thoughtful, flexible, conceptual
understanding of subject matter.
• It also include knowledge about organizing
idea, connections among idea, way of thinking
and arguing patters.

16. Instructional strategies
Constructive approach:
its a learner centred approach to learning that
emphasize the importance of individual actively
constructing knowledge and understanding with
guidance of teacher.
Direct instruction approach:
a structured teacher centred characterised by
teacher control, high teacher expectation for
students progress. Maximum time spend by student
on academic task
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17. Professional skills
• Thinking skills
• Classroom management skills
• Motivation skills
• Communicational skills
• Assessment and evaluation skills
• Technological skills

18. Attitude of Teaching
• Commitment: investment of Time
• Motivation : enthusiastic
• Caring: Take care of emotion of Students

19. Thinking skills:
Critical thinking skills involves thinking
reflectively, productively and evaluating
evidence.
Classroom management skills:
Effective teacher establish and maintain an
environment in which learning can occur. To
create this teacher need to repertoire to
strategies for establishing rule and procedure,
organising in groups ,monitoring and pacing
classroom activities.

20. Motivational skills:
• Effective teacher have good skills foe helping
students become self motivated.
• Effective teacher give them opportunity to
think creatively and deeply about the project.
Communication skills:
Teachers are skilled in speaking and listening
overcome the barriers of verbal
communication and tuning the Non-verbal
communication.

21. Assessment and evaluation skills
• Assessment and evaluation is the integral part
of teaching.
• Assessment and evaluation must be objective,
reliable and valid.
Technological skills:
Student benefit from the teacher who
increase their technology knowledge and
integrate appropriately to the classroom
learning.

22. Characteristic of a best Teacher
• Have a sense of humour
• Make the class interesting
• Have knowledge of their subjects
• Explain things clearly
• Spend time to help students
• Treat student like adult
• Relate well to student
• considerate student feeling
• Don't show favouritism towards students