ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies some of the pressures being experienced by teachers in the current education climate and outlines some of the basic premises of Process-Based Instruction (PBI). It describes how PBI can be of value to teachers and students in most educational settings. New teaching and learning programmes and packages – often called educational technologies – are constantly being introduced to teachers and school personnel. The teaching profession has always been subject to close scrutiny. There is a perception by some teachers that the education system has been subject to greater government intervention in recent years, which has led to a marked decline in teacher morale. The roots of PBI were established in 1980. At that time, there was a decline in teachers' confidence in the wide variety of innovative teaching and testing resources, such as the Frostig-Horne Program in Visual Perception, the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA), SRA kits, and behavioural approaches to classroom teaching.
