ABSTRACT
Identifying and defining teaching skills There is less dissent about what constitutes effective teaching in discussion between people outside the profession than there is in the research and evaluation literature. Good teachers, it is commonly held, are keen and enthusiastic, well-organised, firm but fair, stimulating, know their stuff and are interested in the welfare of their pupils. Few would attempt to defend the converse: that good teachers are unenthusiastic, boring, unfair, ignorant and do not care about their pupils.
