As teachers learn new pedagogical strategies, they crave explicit demonstrations that show them how the new strategies will work with their students in their classrooms. Successful instructional coaches, therefore, understand the importance of modeling lessons to help teachers develop a vision of effective instruction. The author, an experienced…

In just over 20 years, all 78 million baby boomers will have reached their "coming of age." When this demographic milestone occurs, one in every five Americans will be at least 65 years old; millions will have comorbid and chronic conditions requiring better prepared health care providers and markedly improved services than are presently…

For twenty years, the author of this article has helped prepare teachers for middle and high school classrooms. As with most lengthy journeys, this author relates how her journey as a teacher educator had taken different pathways. Early in her career, she had emphasized mainly what teachers should know: levels of Bloom's taxonomy, types of…

Microteaching is a successful analytical tool because of its precision and simplicity, its low pressure approach, and the fact that it encourages experimentation. In addition, the technique is easily mediated, replicated, and controlled. (Author/JD)

A review of five key aspects of microteaching indicate that problems in program design and practice in the First World also may become endemic in the Third World. Exploitation of the literature, however, could bring microteaching in both contexts closer to its potential. (Author/MT)

Microteaching has developed since its inception at Stanford University in 1963. Basically it consists of a simplification of the teaching situation and the provision of feedback. The model, first applied to foreign language (FL) teaching by Robert Politzer, involves a definition of skills relevant to FL teaching and the preparation of performance…

The general education skills focused on in traditional models of microteaching are not necessarily the most important ones for language teachers. A microteaching model addressing organizational skills and the giving of instructions, particularly well suited to language teachers' needs, is described and illustrated, with suggestions for further…

Discussed in this article are the theoretical advantages and possible limitations of two recent trends in teacher education--internships and microteaching. Topics considered include the values of internship, supervision and analysis, and the overemphasis on technique. (EB)

The development and use of microteaching are discussed briefly. Research on modeling, practice, and feedback is reviewed; and studies of the overall outcomes of microteaching and conceptual models underlying microteaching are discussed. Few conclusions can be drawn about the effectiveness of microteaching. (TJH)

Discusses microteaching, a training context in which a teacher's situation is reduced in scope or simplified in systematic ways. This article addresses microteaching as an inservice tool, and discusses how school-based microteaching can be beneficial to all involved in the learning and teaching process. (Author/VWL)

Shows how experimental approaches to adult education, such as microteaching, video-tape feedback, and simulation techniques, can be useful to educators and their students. Offers an instructional design model to be tested and modified to meet individual educational needs as a means of facilitating the use of these approaches. (DMM)

Discusses the need for faculty development programs in library schools and examines some aspects of instructional development, microteaching, curriculum development, organizational development, and personal development as components in formulating such programs. (FM)

Describes a procedure used in in-service training in Turkey which encourages feedback discussion that does not make individual teachers feel threatened. Contentrating on areas of teaching rather than individual performance, individual "micro-tasks" were initially discussed in small groups, followed by the teachers' comments on the…

Methods are suggested that can be used to varying degrees by the teacher for a self-evaluation, which is independent of any other procedures that might be used by a school system. Three sources of information can be used as the basis for self-evaluation: (1) scaled instruments, questionnaires, and narrative reports; (2) videotapes; and (3) data on…

Wilkinson uses the comments of the trainees to evaluate the various elements of a "Stage I" training course on skills for teaching adults. Grainger describes the difficulties encountered in running Stage I courses and how problems have been solved. (CT)