Developing Effective Teaching Skills: What Teachers Should Know

Isa Shehu Usman, Dorcas Peter John, Wuyep Lar Simvyap

Abstract


The dynamic nature of teaching in today’s modern world requires that teachers must be professionally trained for them to have requisite skills of teaching. Teacher’s professional skills development is a sin-qua non for effective teaching. This is because teachers who have no teaching skills tend to impart wrong information to their students. On the basis of these, this paper focused on: Guiding principle of effective teaching, the acquisition of teaching skills, developing effective teaching skills and the end useful recommendations were proffered.


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