these results may reflect prospective teachers exposure to teaching as part of preservice education andor different levels of support provided to new teachers as part of inservice training but the data reflect only teachers feelings of preparedness it is much harder to find systematic evidence on the actual prevalence of pedagogies in classrooms the teacher has planned the lesson knows the content he or she needs to cover and delivers it to the students who are expected to master that content and apply it to their homework or a test this kind of teacherdirected instruction might also include things like lectures lesson summaries or questionandanswer periods that are driven by the teacher thus studentoriented teaching strategies are increasingly finding their way into classrooms of all subjects