In a technology and media dominated era of education the role of teacher and there by the skills required to be mastered by each teacher need redefinition. The paper attempts to identify the list of essential teaching skills for the present age by retaining the significant ones and including those inevitable for present context. The skills discussed in this paper are Set Induction, Stimulus variation, Questioning, Explanation, Communication, Handling of Technology, Collaboration, Managing Distractors, Research guidance, and Closure. Handling of Technology, Collaboration, Managing Distractors, and Research guidance are the newly included ones.