Instructions in Skills Teaching: A Case Study of Four Elementary School Handicrafts Teachers

The purpose of this study is to clarify the instructions teachers use when directing the pupils’ work during crafts lessons. The aim of the study is to classify and describe different contents of instructions. The research problem is to determine which instructions are used most during crafts lessons. This research is a case study with a qualitative character. The material was collected by observing and videotaping crafts lessons and analyzed by the methods of theory-driven content analysis. As results, ten different categories for contents of instructions are introduced. The most common contents of instructions described the concepts and procedures and gave feedback.