Preface Education Teach Vision

Teacher training institutions offer courses that go by such titles as ‘Principles and Practice of Education’, ‘General Methods of Teaching’, ‘Instructional Methods’, etc. Teachers of such courses (as well as their students) have had to face the problem of finding a source from which to draw their materials. Most of the existing textbooks are highly special- ised and each of them treats only a few aspects of what the prospective and practicing teacher would need to guide his everyday classroom prac-tice. In most cases such books are difficult to come by, and so both teachers and students have no access to them. This book has therefore attempted to fill a gap on the Pakistani of the libraries of institutions, SS admin, and tutors in colleges and University Departments of Education (particularly in Pakistani) by bringing together in a single volume the theories, ideas, and suggestions which would equip the trainee and prac-tising teacher for the task of classroom teaching.

The work has taken several years to develop. I have been involved in teacher training at all levels for about a decade. During this period I have discussed my ideas with a large number of colleagues and students. Prac-tising teachers, on in-service courses, have commented on my ideas and have helped to develop them. This is also true of many of my ex-students who have continued to teach me long after they left my lecture rooms. I have also benefited a great deal from the ‘book’ mai brane - the constant effort to reflect on what one reads, hears, and sees - which I have always recommended to my students.

My thanks are due to all these ‘sources’. They have all helped to crystallize my ideas over the past ten years. I am also grateful to my two advisers, the former helped to sharpen the theoretical base of this work while the latter vetted its practical side.