Các giáo viên bắt đầu có xu hướng dựa phần nào về thực hành thành lập trong trường, đặc biệt là nếu một chương trình của công việc đang được sử dụng (chẳng hạn như dựa trên một cuốn sách giáo khoa hoặc các bảng tính). Với kinh nghiệm, tuy nhiên, giáo viên trở nên tự tin hơn nhiều và có thẩm quyền trong việc quyết định theo tính chất | 26 Essential Teaching Skills and an awareness of pupils needs. Beginning teachers tend to rely somewhat on established practice in the school particularly if a scheme of work is in use such as that based on a textbook or worksheets . With experience however teachers become much more confident and authoritative in deciding on the nature and structure of the content they wish to use and also better able to judge the pace of progress to expect through the content elements and the likely areas of difficulty or misunderstanding that may arise. The problem for experienced teachers becomes that of keeping abreast of developments in the teaching of their subject and topics in line with changes in required educational attainment. Selecting learning activities The selection of learning activities offers much scope and choice for teachers. The decision about which activity or combination of activities to use within a lesson depends on the teacher s beliefs about the relative effectiveness of the different activities for the type of learning intended. This decision however also needs to take account of a range of factors relating to the context of the lesson. First will the activities selected meet the needs of this particular group of pupils taking account of their abilities interests and motivation and the way they are likely to respond to these activities You may feel that because a particular class seems to work well when group work tasks are used you will incorporate group work into their lesson. Equally well you may decide to incorporate group work into the lesson because the class has not worked well with this activity and you feel more practice and experience with this activity will be of value to them in developing associated skills and benefits. Indeed the fact that an activity has not worked well may suggest a need to use it more often rather than to avoid using it. A second important factor concerns when the lesson occurs. The type of activities that might be .
