This PPT prepared by Teacher Educator From Thiagarajar College Of Preceptor - Madurai for B.Ed Trainees.

1.  Skill & Teaching
By
Arthy R
Assistant Professor
Thiagarajar College of Preceptors
Madurai

2.  A skill is learning to carry out a task with pre-
determined results often within a given
amount of time, energy, or both.
 Skills can often be divided into domain -
general and domain-specific skills.
 For example, time management, teamwork and
leadership, self-motivation and others.

3.  Labor skills
 Life skills
 People skills
 Social skills
 Soft skills
 Hard skills

4.  Skilled workers are electricians, masons,
carpenters, blacksmiths, bakers, brewers,
coopers, printers
 other occupations that are economically
productive.
 Skilled workers were often politically active
through their craft guilds.

5.  Life skills are problem-solving behaviors that
are used appropriately, responsibly in the
management of personal affairs.
 They are a set of human skills, acquired via
learning (teaching) or direct experience that
are used to handle problems and questions
commonly encountered in daily human life.
 The subject varies greatly depending on
societal norms and community expectations.

6.  According to the Portland Business
Journal, people skills are described as
understanding ourselves and
moderating our responses talking
effectively and empathizing,
accurately building relationships of
trust, respect and productive
interactions.

7.  Social skill is a skill facilitating interaction
and communication with others.
 Social rules and relations are created,
communicated, and changed in verbal and
nonverbal ways.
 The process of learning such skill is called
socialization.

8.  Soft skill is a sociological term relating to
a person's "EQ" (Emotional Intelligence
Quotient), the cluster of personality traits,
social graces, communication, language,
personal habits, friendliness, and
optimism that characterize relationships
with other people.
 Soft skills complement hard skills (part of
a person's IQ), which are the occupational
requirements of a job and many other
activities.

9.  Hard skills are any skills relating to a
specific task or situation.
 These skills are easily quantifiable
unlike soft skills which are related to
one's personality.

10.  Teaching is a process of educating
a person
 with theoretical concepts
 is a kind of a knowledge transfer
between a teacher and a student.

11.  The role of the teacher is to act as a
facilitator
 of learning by leading discussions,
 providing opportunities to ask open-
ended questions,
 guiding the processes and tasks and
 enabling the active participation of
learners and to engage with ideas.

12.  Teachers are occupied in schools
with the main purpose of
educating the children to grow as
good citizens in the world.
 Children today are the future
leaders of the society. Therefore,
teaching can be considered as an
important concept.

13.  According to UNESCO (2004) and
Scheerens (2004), the main characteristics
of good teaching.
 Relevance - the teaching content, in
particular alignment with the
curriculum.
 Sufficient learning time - the time
devoted to actual teaching, as opposed to
the official hours set in the curriculum.

14.  Structured teaching - learners’
engagement is stimulated, their
understanding monitored, and feedback
and reinforcement regularly provided.
 A conducive classroom environment -
task-oriented climate, mutual respect
between the students and teacher and
among students, orderliness, and safety.

15.  Teachers with appropriate subject matter
mastery, verbal intelligence, a broad teaching
repertoire, and motivation to achieve.
 adaptability to context (both in terms of subject
matter knowledge and medium of instruction)
 different levels of structure tailored to students’
profile.
 assess the relevance of both current and planned
objectives ( content, structure, and context of
teaching and learning) to the national and global
situation.