ABSTRACT
This unit is concerned mainly with professional characteristics, which have two components. The first component, underlying behaviours, depends on deep-seated characteristics and drives the things teachers typically do. The second, microbehaviours, can be learned and contributes to teaching skills. When combined, these characteristics produce individual teaching styles. Although individual teaching styles are very personal, analysis of teaching has identified common approaches in teaching episodes and these provide a framework in which personal styles can develop. The chapter introduces some of these approaches and provides opportunities for you to use theories encountered in other sections of this book in widening your range of teaching styles within them.
