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(Seed Health Management for Better Productivity)Communication Skills for TeachingB. KumarDepartment of Agriculture Communication, G.B.P.U.A.&T., Pantnagar-263145 (Uttarakhand)What is so sacred about teaching. Anybody with educational qualification feels qualified toteach. Teaching is not same as lecturing or preaching. It is not simply telling facts. Effectiveteaching is orderly, businesslike and focused on learning outcome.All good teachers approachteaching systematically and at the level of the learners. Learning is different among individuals.Teachers must understand learners’ interests experiences and needs. Effective teaching ismotivating and pleasant experience.What is teaching?Learners do not have empty minds. They have experiences, habits and presumptions. Soteaching is stimulating them to absorb. It requires more then more knowledge of the subject.Agood teacher must know his subject thoroughly. He should understand the learners, psychologyand level of learning besides, a must have knowledge and skills in methods of teaching. In order toteach someone effectively a personal report is needed. Thus, teacher must be skilled incommunication.An Expert Highly Commented that Teaching is the technique or better still the art whichenables use to proceed from merely knowing to “making known”. A gift for teaching is possessionof a dynamic force which brings out an inner store of knowledge. It is the force which enlivensknowledge and give the capacity is art of making others understand what we have understoodourselves.Thus, the focus of teaching is not merely on scholarship or expertise but also the techniqueof communication through which learners can be motivated to learn. Such a technique can comeform in-depth observation of learner and the way they learn. All individuals differ in learning. So theteaching must provide variable learning solutions.Such a knowledge in case of agricultural education is not only the critical but practical andrelated to field problem. Thus, the teacher must have sufficient fields experience to understand thesolutions. He should know how to organize learning experience to choice desire learning outcome.It is thus, clear that teaching requires special understanding about the ways and means to makeothers learn.Pattern Of Effective TeachingVarious researches an teaching have concluded some common pattern about teaching asgiven below: Clarity: Effective teaching is simple and clear. It is easy for learners to understand and apply.Teachers relate topic to the experiences and level of understanding of learners. They employexample and analogies to clarify the subject. Variability: good teaching has Varity. Varity comes from audio-visuals stimuli used byteachers. If a teacher talks continuously in the same tone, learners get bored. A teacher mayvary volume, he may use visuals. He may shift from lecturing to getting inputs of learners.Various Sources Of Variability In The Classroom May Be:‣ Speaking to writing/drawing.‣ Chang in volume‣ Change in pace of speaking- 204 -