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• Pedagogical communication assumes the form of interpersonal interaction, that is, the
sum total of ties and mutual influences arriving in the process of individuals’ joint
activities.
• Pedagogical communication is based on social works and social control.
• Pedagogical communication is a system of methods.

b. Whether you are sketching an outline or jotting down points for a content subject (history,
geography, mathematics, for example) or a skill subject (language studies, for example),
effective teaching needs a lesson plan.
It helps to think of the lesson plan as a planned audio-visual presentation. It is useful
hence to divide the information into three stages:
i. Pre-teaching activities make the learner curious and oriented towards the main topic
of the actual lesson dealt with. Often, these activities consist of a quick fire round of
question-answer series. You should write out at the planning stage all possible ques-
tions and all probable answers.
At times, pre-teaching consists of activities that are framed as leads. In such a case, you
have to plan the lesson in such a way that either yours, as the teacher’s or the learners’ reac-
tions lead to the main argument. You could tell half the story, for example and ask your
learners to complete it and then start your teaching, working through these reactions.
ii. During the actual teaching, it is necessary to plan in such a way that the multiplicity
of media, that writing as a communication skill specially enjoys, is used to advantage,
Please see to it that the entire data is dealt with through stages that you cohesively link
through markers such as, ‘now my next point is’, ‘my third observation deals with’, et
al. The learners, thus, understand the progression of the argument. It is the teacher’s
duty to plan these activities in such an ordered way during the structuring of the les-
son plan.
iii. During the post-teaching interaction, sum up, and further open up to questioning,
the data presented in the lesson.
In brief, the structuring of a lesson plan should look as follows:

Stage Time required Activities involved Audio-visual aids
i. Pre-teaching 20 minutes 1. question-answer flash cards, black board
2. reading by learners
ii. Teaching 25 minutes 1. reading by teacher textbook, slides
iii. Post-teaching 5 minutes 1. summing up through cue cards
question-answers

It is a good practice, moreover, to maintain a diary in which you evaluate yourself against
every detail. Such a process helps you find out your lacunae, work on them and improve
your performance as a teacher.

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