DIFFERENT SKILLS OF TEACHING

PALASH DAS
Assistant Professor in Chemistry
Erstwhile David Hare Training College
Kolkata :19
 Teaching Skills:

Teaching skills refer to different direct or indirect practices

or behaviors adopted by teachers to enable a better learning
experience for their students.
These skills may help students learn or engage in a better
way
Microteaching:
Characteristics :
Micro Teaching Cycle:
 Different Skills of Micro Teaching :

1. Introducing a Lesson.
2. Explaining.
3. Questioning
4. Use of Black Board
5. Reinforcement.
6. Concluding the lesson.
Sub-skills of Introducing the Lesson:
Sub-Skills of Explaining :
Skill of Questioning :
 Skill of Black Board Work :
Component Very Good Average Poor
Good

1. Legibility in Hand Writing :

a. Distinct difference between letters
spacing
b. Size of Capital Letters
c. Size of Capital & Small letters
d. Thickness of lines

2. Neatness in Black board work :

a. Straightness of the lines
b. Spacing between the lines
c. Avoidance of overwriting
d. Focusing on the relevant matter

3. Appropriateness :
a. Continuity in the points
b. Brevity and simplicity
c. Drawing attention and focusing
 Skill of stimulus variation:
Component 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1. Teacher movement
2. Teacher gestures
3. Change in speech pattern
4. Change in sensory focus
5. Verbal pupil pattern
6. Pupil activity
Skill of Illustrating With Examples:

 Simple
 relevant and interesting examples appropriate
media
 use of inducts
 deductive approach
Skill of Reinforcement :

Component Tallies

1. Positive verbal statement

2. Positive gestural
3. Proximity
4. Contact
5. Using pupils answers
6. Negative verbal statement
7. Negative gestural
8. Silence
Sub skills of Class room Management :
1. Calling of Pupils by their names.
2. Giving clear direction for any classroom activities.
3. Ensuring sufficient works or activities to the students.
4. Keeping them within eye span
5. Shifting from one teaching activity to another teaching
activity smoothly.
6. Recognizing and reinforcing alternative behavior of the
students.
7. Checking of inappropriate behavior of students immediately.
Sub skills of achieving closures:
1.Summarizing by making an out line of the main points on the
Blackboard.
2. Seeking of students participation.
3. May give opportunities for the students to apply the new
knowledge acquired in new situations.
4. Linking of previous knowledge for future learning by giving
Home assignments /Home work