The teacher's skills: communication, resources, programmes

This chapter will deal with the skills of (1) communicating with pupils, (2) exploiting educational resources, and (3) programming various units of learning. Obviously, this is a division of convenience and partly arbitrary. Α great deal has already been said about these themes in earlier chapters. Teaching skills are interdependent. Sound discipline and effective communication, humane teaching and skilful programming of lessons, reasonable objectives and varied deployment of obtainable resources, are all mutually beneficial—or, if badly conceived or managed, mutually detrimental. Nevertheless, the themes of this chapter are sufficiently large and distinct to deserve some special elaboration. Before embarking on these themes it would be useful to say a short word about an ancillary theme that bears on them.