Seek to develop teaching as a unique set of personal skills
wich teachers apply in different ways according to the
demands of specific situations
Essential skills:
Treat each
teaching
situation as
unique. Identify
the particular
characteristics of
each situation.
Try out different
teaching
strategies.
Develop personal
approaches to
teaching.
Theory-Philosophy
Conceptions
Value Based Approaches:
Essentially appeal to
educational or social value
systems in Justifying their
proposals.
Team teaching/
Humanistic Approaches/
The learner Centered
Curriculum/ Movement/
Reflective Teaching
Essential skills:
Understand the theory
and the principles.
Select syllabi, materials,
and tasks based on the
theory. Monitor your
teaching to see that it
conforms to the theory.
Require teachers first to
understand the theory
underlying the methodology
and then to teach in such a
way that the theory is
realized in classroom practice.
The Silent
Way
Communicative Language Teaching
Science Research
Conceptions
Essential skills: Understand the
learning principles. Develop
tasks and activities based on the
learning principles. Monitor
students’ performance on tasks
to see that desired performance
is being achieved.
Use learning theory or learning
research to validate selection of
instructional tasks and tend to
support the use of specific teaching
strategies and techniques