M.Ed. / To the classroom teacher educational opportunities occur mainly during teaching with an added burden during extra-mural activities. Apart from the formal education the teacher often encounters informal situations during which pupils need guidance in order to master life-skills. During and after the training of teachers the perception is established that an intellectually well-trained educator will also be capable of teaching the necessary life-skills to pupils in need of such skills. The aim of this dissertation 1S to establish the need for interviewing skills by teachers and to point out that pupils are in desperate need to be educated by better equipped teachers. Since interviewing or counsell ing is considered the domain of psycho-therapists in our country, teachers are not being trained to apply this basic skill in order to enable the pupils to help themselves. The basic and those discussed interviews interviews requirements for successful interviews were researched applicable to the school educational situation are in this dissertation. Parameters for successful are mentioned and a framework for the general form of is included. The skills which are referred to in this dissertation can serve teachers to become more effective in their endeavour to enable pupils to help themselves. Students and practitioners of education should gain informal effectiveness by mastering and applying these skills.