COACHING – A NEW TECHNIQUE OF TEACHER TRAINING

Transfer refers to the effect of learning one kind of material or skill or the ability to learn something new. The newly acquired skills must be transferred when it is transferred into one"s active teaching repertoire. The condition of classroom are sufficiently different from training situation that one ca not simply walk from the training session in to the classroom with the skill completely ready for use. The skills have to be changed to fit classroom conditions. This is truer in the case of unfamiliar skill. To master a new teaching strategy, teacher needs to develop mastery in the skills or strategies. This can be accomplished in training setting. Then the teachers need to acquire executive control over it including ability to use it appropriately and to adopt it into classroom setting (Joyce, B & Showers 1988) therefore believe that transfer of skills is actually a new set of learning. The mastery of the new strategy that the distinction between horizontal and vertical transfer becomes important.