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Teacher Education

Notes pupil-teacher. There are various teaching skills which can be developed among pupil teachers.
Allen and Ryans (1969) have suggested the following fourteen teaching skills:
1. Stimulus variation 2. Set induction
3. Closure skill 4. Silence and non-verbal cues
5. Reinforcement 6. Asking questions
7. Probing questions 8. Divergent questions
9. Attending behaviour 10. Illustrating skill
11. Lecturing skills 12. Higher order questions
13. Planned repetition, and 14. Communication competence
1. Stimulus variation: This skill involves deliberate changing of various attention producing
bgehaviour by the teacher in order to keep pupils attentive at high level.
2. Set induction: It refers to the development of cognitive support between pupils and teacher to
obtain immediate involvement in the lesson.
3. Closure: This skill is complementary to set induction. It is more than a quick summary of the
portions taught and the pupils are able to related new knowledge with the previous one.
4. Silence and non-verbal cues: The use of silence and non-verbal cues in powerful device in
order to encourage pupil-participation in classroom teaching.
5. Reinforcement: It involves teacher encouraging pupils response using verbal praise, accepting
their responses or non-verbal causes like a smile.
6. Asking questions: This is a skill in asking questions. By fluency means the use of as many
questions as possible in a given period of teaching.
7. Probing questions: Probing requires that teacher asks questions that need pupils to go beyond
superficial first answers of questions.
8. Divergent questions: It requires the respondent to organize elements into new pattern, predict,
and infer from the situation. This skill involves higher order of thinking creativity.
9. Attending behaviour: The successful teacher is more sensitive to note the interest of boredom
of pupils through visual cues.
10. Illustrating skill: This skill of teaching is used to make a concept easy to understand with the
help an example. It involves rule device of teaching.
11. Lecturing skills: Requires the effective presentation of content by using appropriate techniques
and devices of teaching aids. This is known as communication competency.
12. Higher order questions: This skill involves the questions which can be answered by memory
or sensory description. The question consist of rules, principles and generalization
13. Planned repetition: It is a powerful skill in focusing and highlighting important points of
teaching.
14. Communication competence: It is a skill which is developed by sensitivity training for a clear
communication of ideas and concepts in teaching. The teachers are more responsive to possible
miscommunication.

2.5 Summary

• In this unit we have discussed about the meaning of teacher effectiveness and effective teacher.
• Teaching effectiveness ia an act of faith of teacher as well as a students.
• Trust worthiness, enthusiastic, energetic, responsible, keeps promises, agreements, appropriate
behaviour are some of the main characteristics of teacher.
• The identification and classification of teacher are also mentioned, Buoyancy, considerations,
cooperativeness, emotional stability and ethicalness are the classifications of teacher.

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