Effective teachers have a repertoire of effective practices. Repertoire is a word used mainly by the musicians in
the theaters for operas and reading numbers. etc. a person is prepared to perform. It is obvious that more
experienced people and experts have more diverse repertoire than the new inexperienced ones. This goes for
the teachers also. Effective teachers possess a repertoire of teaching practices known to stimulate students’
motivation. They have a variety of activities and teaching techniques to make learning fun for the students.
He/she plans her lessons based on strategic thoughts that involves the conscious selection and use of tools of
thought from her repertoire. Her skills include making children self-motivated. Teachers are not restricted to
the few practices instead they have a pool of new ideas and techniques to handle the hand on situations. They
are not bound to only the prescribed methods of teaching and problem solving. He/she remains on the toes all
the time in and outside the classroom. Vigilant enough to judge students’ problems that are academic as well
emotional and tries to resolve them on the spot. This new concept of teaching no doubt contradicts the idea of
one approach superior to another e.g. inductive vs. deductive teaching, lecture vs. discussion method or use of
phonics to teach reading vs. a whole language approach. From this we conclude that no single teaching
methodology is consistently superior to that of other in all situations. Teaching approach is superior when it is
selected at the appropriate time on a specific group of learners (Belasco, James A, 1991).