1. Skills of Teaching and its components
Dr. Goutam Patra
Govt. College of Education, Banipur
North 24 Paraganas
West Bengal

2. Skills of Teaching
“Teaching skills are specific instructional activities and procedures that a teacher may use in his classroom. They are related to the various stages of teaching or in the continuous flow of teacher’s performance” N.L.Gaze
Activities based on skill: 1)Fixing objectives or goal
2) Deciding ways to achieve them

3. 3) Learning experiences to be given
4) Maxims/principles to be followed
5) Teaching approaches to be followed
6) Teaching aids to be used
7) Time maintenance to each unit/sub-unit
8) Management of the class room A) Perception and interaction
B) Diagnosis
c) Reaction adopting strategies
d) Assessing progress/achievement

4. Defined micro-teaching as a system of controlled practice that make it possible to concentrate on specific teaching skills and to practice teaching under controlled situation.(Allen & eve, 1968)
Micro-Teaching is a teacher education technique which allows teachers to apply clearly defined teaching skills to carefully prepared lessons in a planned series of five to ten minutes with a small group of real students offer with an opportunity to observe on video-tape” (Bush,1968)

5. Characteristics of Micro teaching
Teaching is realistic and not mechanical
Objective based (skill development)
A strategy for teacher’s training
Analytical for particular teaching behaviour
A small group teaching
A class teaching of five to ten minutes
Remedial and motivating
Full of diversified actions-Observation, Analysis, Preparation, Practice, Transmission and evaluation

6. Three Phases of Micro Teaching-J.C.Cliff
Knowledge acquisition phase- Observing, Demonstration of skill, Analysis and Discussion
Skill acquisition phase-Preparing Micro lesson, Practice skills, Evaluating performance
Skill acquisition phase transfer of skill to actual teaching situation

7. Importance of Micro-Teaching Technique
Micro-elements: Helps trainees to master the components of the complicated task of teaching effectively at micro level.
Identification of different teaching skills:
Pre-instructional- writing instructional objectives, proper organization of content, selection of teaching –Aids and activities
Instructional skills: Introducing lesson, explaining, illustrating with examples, questioning, probing questions, re-organising attending behaviour, re-inforcing pupil participation etc.
Post Instructional skills: evaluation, performance test, remedial measures

8. Different Skills 2. Set –induction 3. Silence and non-verbal cues
Allen Ryan—(14 slkills)
1. Stimulus variation
2. Set –induction
3. Silence and non-verbal cues
4. Reinforcement
5. Fluency in asking questions
6. Divergent questions
7. Recognizing attending behaviour
8. Illustrating and use of examples
9. Probing questions
10. High order questioning
11. Lecturing
12. Planned repetition
13. Completeness of communication
14. Closure

9. 13 skills defined by Dr. Passi
Writing instructional objectives
Introducing lesson
Fluency in questions
Probing questions
Explaining
Illustrating with examples
Stimulus variations
Silence and non-verbal cues
Reinforcement
Increasing pupil participation
Using Black board
Achieving closure
Re-organising attending behaviour

10. Types regarding utility
Skill of explaining
Skill of using Board
Skill in increasing student’s participation
Skill of identifying instructional objectives
Skill of using audio-visual aids
Skill of class management
Skill of giving assignment

11. Questioning ‘Pranipatena pariprashnena sebaya’ Gita
Sacretic Method and questioning
Interrogative statement
“ The class room teacher probably devotes more time and thought to asking questions than anybody since socrates. One might even say the teacher is a professional question maker”-Aschner
“ By a conscious process of good questioning an intelligent teacher can lead his educational travellIng through unfamiliar regions to a desired destination.”

12. Types of Questioning Memory Question Organisational Question
Reasoning Question
Evaluative Question
Inference Question
Informational Question
Comparison Question
Analysis Question

13. Examination Question
Drilling Question
Review Question
Developmental Question
Recapitulatory Question
Explanatory Question
Summary Question
Leading Question
Factual answer type Question
Disciplinary Question

14. Components of Skill of Questioning
Clarity and precision of language
Linking with specific objectives
Re-focussing and redirecting
Using students responses for further questioning
Prompting