According to N.L. Gage, teaching skills are specific instructional activities and procedures that teachers use in the classroom, such as writing objectives, using stimulus variation, set induction, probing questions, illustrations with examples, lectures, explanations, blackboard use, reinforcement, divergent questions, teaching aids, silence and non-verbal cues, assignments, and closure. These skills relate to the different stages of teaching and the continuous flow of a teacher's performance.

1. Teaching SkillsTeaching Skills
Meaning :-Meaning :-
According to N.L. Gage (1968)According to N.L. Gage (1968)
““Teaching skills are specific instructionalTeaching skills are specific instructional
activities & procedures that a teacher may use inactivities & procedures that a teacher may use in
his class room. These are related to the varioushis class room. These are related to the various
stages of teaching in the continuous flow of thestages of teaching in the continuous flow of the
teacher performance”teacher performance”

2. Teaching SkillsTeaching Skills :-:-
 1.1. Writing Instructional ObjectivesWriting Instructional Objectives
 2.2. Stimulus VariationStimulus Variation
 3. Set induction3. Set induction
 4. Probing Question4. Probing Question
 5.5. Illustration with examplesIllustration with examples
 6.6. LectureLecture

3.  7. Explaining7. Explaining
 8. Blackboard use8. Blackboard use
 9.9. ReinforcementReinforcement
 10. Divergent question10. Divergent question
 11. Use of Teaching Aids11. Use of Teaching Aids
 12.12. Silence and non-verbalSilence and non-verbal
 13.13. Giving AssignmentsGiving Assignments
 14.14. ClosureClosure