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Essential Teaching Skills |
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- Planning and Preparation: the skills involved in selecting the educational aims and learning outcomes intended for a lesson and how best to achieve these.
- Lesson Presentation: the skills involved in successfully engaging pupils in the learning experience, particular in relation to the quality of instruction.
- Lesson Management: the skills involved in managing and organizing the learning activities taking place during the lesson to maintain pupils’ attention, interest and involvement.
- Classroom Climate: the skills involved in establishing and maintaining positive attitudes and motivation by pupils towards the lesson.
- Discipline: the skills involved in maintaining good order dealing with any pupil misbehavior which occurs.
- Assessing Pupil Progress: the skills involved in assessing pupils’ progress, covering both formative (intended to aid pupils’ further development) and summative (providing a record of attainment) purposes of assessment.
- Reflection and Evaluation: the skills involved in evaluating one’s own current teaching practice in order to improve future practice.
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