ABSTRACT
Teaching involves passing on knowledge, skills and understanding and one identifies three types of teaching strategy: informing, reinforcing and supporting learning. Informing strategies involve teachers in broadcasting or transmitting facts and information: factual information arising in all the core and foundation subjects; meanings and definitions; tricks; tips; memory jogs and snippets of general knowledge. Reinforcing involves five strategies such as reminding, repeating, re-demonstrating, directing to further practicing, directing a child to help or teach another child. This reinforcement strategy was observed to be one of the most predominant verbal strategies used throughout lessons. Expert teaching, entails the dynamic use of a range of strategies including verbal as well as practical demonstrative techniques. Teaching implies a willingness to seek every possible way to clarify things for children and to extend their learning, bridging the gap between what they understand alone and what they might understand with the help of another.
