Teaching skills( What are the teaching skills that a teacher should have during classroom teaching?)

Teaching skill

During the classroom teaching a teacher should have fine teaching skills. Teaching skills are mainly techniques which is used by a teacher in the classroom so that he/she can command over the class. These are basically planned previously by the teacher before going for teaching, skill can be mastered by practicing and understanding of the class whatever it is. As we know that teaching is a purposeful process in which teacher and students are very active or say they are living while the important element  'curriculum ' is passive or say non-living. The curriculum leads an interaction between student and teacher. In the teaching process student, teacher and curriculum are important element, they are enough for the significant teaching-learning process. 

According to Burton-

"Teaching to the stimulation, guidance and direction and encouragement of learning"

Teaching skill is the process in which a teacher plans everything orally, written, and by the use of black-board. The way he/she teaches actually depends upon the teaching skill whatever is being used. Teacher asks question in the classroom, gives examples, gives demonstrations, do experiments, explains tough topics, stimulates students, gives ques to students, symbolize things, use gesture and posture with proper attitudes, gives reinforcement to students according to their responses, plays roles sometimes, sometimes he/she takes proper silence in the class which have the great significance as well. All these activities are performed by a teacher in the classroom in a systematic and planned way. So the inclusion of all these activities in set which actually improves the teaching are called as Teaching skill.

Characteristics of effective teaching skills

• It can be developed individually.

• It is related to the unit plans of teaching behavioirs.

• They make teaching meaningful and effective.

• They are helpful in obtaining teaching objectives (specific objectives).

• Makes the class active and change the behaviours of students.

• It is very simple way to present the topic in the class, and the rate of learning is enhanced.

• It is related to teaching process and behaviours.

Definitions

"According to B.K.Passi- It is a set of activities or behaviours in order to facilitate the learning and learning outcomes".

"According to M.K.Passi- Teaching skills are specific instructions which is used by a teacher. It is in teaching related to different activities which are continuously used by the teacher in classroom interactions".

List of the teaching Skills 

There are 14  Teaching Skill given by Stan Ford University which are as follows-

1. Set Induction
2. Fluency in Questioning 
3. Stimulate Variations
4. Silence and Non-verbal Ques 
5. Reinforcement Pupil participation
6. Probing Questions 
7. Higher Order Questions 
8. Divergent Questions
9. Illustrations and Use of Explanations 
10. Lecturing
11. Planned Repetition
12. Completeness of Communicate 
13. Recognising Behaviour 
14. Closure 

Indian educationist B.k.Passi in 1975 listed 13 Teaching Skills which are as following-

1. Writing Instructional objectives 
2. Introduction of lesson Plan
3. Fluency of Questions
4. Probing Questions
5. Explaining 
6. Illustrating
7. Stimulus-variation
8. Silence and Non-verbal Cues
9. Reinforcement
10. Increasing students Participation
11. Use of Black-board
12. Achieving Closure
13. Attending Behaviour of students

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The above teaching skills are very important for a teacher while going to teach. The best part about these skill is they are all pre-planned and arranged well so that the classroom teaching becomes meaningful, these are techniques which helps a teacher to activate students in the classroom. They are important in creating classroom environment, the use of them makes a joyful class  and effective teaching. 

Importance of effective Teaching skill-

While talking about teaching skills, it is necessary to discuss its importance. Teaching skills are the main factors of a teacher, it defines teacher's activity in class. They make an understanding about what to teach and how to teach. These skills are helpful in creating an effective environment so that students can grab the knowledge. Without teaching skill the teaching will be monotonous and students will not take part in teaching-learning process, if they don't feel good during class then its meaningless to teach them. Now-a-days activity based teaching is being done because students is everything in classroom, everything is for students so they must be active at the time of teaching.

Activity based learning

Most of the time students don't focus in class, in such case teacher must involve him in all activities and make them to be participated. 

Improve Participation

The response of students plays very crucial role in classroom teaching, by the help of student's responses a teacher decides the outcomes of the teaching.