ABSTRACT
Teacher makes sudden decisions, often unconnected with teachers’ original plans, in order to move the lesson along in a particular direction. And as teachers’ lesson proceeds, teachers’ pupils too are watching, listening and thinking too. For most teachers the process of classroom teaching seems to be a spontaneous intuitive activity. Explicit goals act as reference points or benchmarks against which eventual outcomes of classroom work can be judged. Most teachers of English have deeply held beliefs and assumptions about the nature of their subject and how it should be taught. More realistically, most teachers of English are engaged in the daily business of selecting and preparing different kinds of activities and materials for their classes. A practical example of the holistic model would be a scheme of work for older secondary pupils jointly planned by a group of teachers using the novel Kes by Barry Hines as its central focus of interest.
