• Preface: people, resources, techniques 1. Teaching practice: some fundamentals 2. First practice 3. Questions of discipline 4. The teacher’s skills: objectives, humanity, motivation 5. The teacher’s skills: communication, resources, programmes 6. Assessment of teaching and learning 7. The student as teacher, learner, and person 8. Teaching practice and educational theory Appendix A: Student teacher’s checklist Appendix B: Teaching method: some illustrative readings

Review of the first publication:‘Professor McFarland’s book will be required reading for all engaged in teacher education.’— E.A.G. Clark, Rhodes University, South Africa