This investigation was designed to determine the effectiveness of microteaching as a technique to acquire a teaching skill in the use of nonverbal cues. Participants were randomly assigned to either the control group, who taught four microlessons focusing upon two separate teaching skills, or the experimental groups, who taught six microlessons…

This article selectively reviews cognitive research on computer programing and suggests how it could be used to open new avenues of research in the fields of teacher education and instructional supervision. (Author/IAH)

This paper examines the relationships between both low- and high-inference teaching process variables and success in specific teaching tasks performed in a laboratory setting. Two minor objectives are also included: teacher characteristics are related to success in the teaching tasks, and the relationships between low- and high-inference teaching…

Fifty-nine inservice teachers in grades 1 through 12 took "Minicourse 20: Divergent Thinking," a course training teachers to use brainstorming to stimulate divergent thinking in students. Tapes of brainstorming sessions were made before, after, and seven weeks after the course ended. Experimental teachers improved significantly more than controls…

Studies were made of teaching methods and student teaching experiences that made use of both video taped microteaching and computer assisted interaction analysis. Combining the computer and Flanders' Interaction Analysis can assist student teachers in vocational programs to improve their teaching performance, based upon immediate objective…

Analyzes students' evaluations of teaching instruction in a social studies methods course when the course was taught in an active instructional approach as opposed to a passive approach. Finds that the students rated the instructor of the active course higher on the instructor's ability to promote understanding of course topics and overall…

This bibliography of print and nonprint materials on microteaching is designed to be useful to anyone in the field of education who is interested in (1) finding out about microteaching and its researchers; (2) examining many microteaching formats; (3) noting results of experimental studies on the subject, or (4) setting up a microteaching…

This book contains 17 papers prepared for a colloquium series on development and related research dealing with conditions and processes of learning, subject matter content and sequence, instructional media, and instructional methods and teacher behaviors: 1) "Organized Retention and Cued Recall" by Endel Tulving; 2) "Developmental Processes in…

Reported is a study of the effect of selected modes of feedback on teacher behavior in a microteaching situation. Forty students enrolled in an elementary school science methods course participated in this study. Four groups were randomly organized into three treatment groups and one control group. One treatment group received verbal feedback from…

In order to compare the differences in cognitions of experienced and beginning teachers, the perceptions of six experienced teachers, six student teachers, and six probationer teachers (in their first year of teaching after college training) were studied at various times during the course of a school year, using a variety of methods (interview,…

This study reports on research concerning the effects of instruction based on protocol materials and training materials on concept acquisition and skill acquisition. Direct or intended outcomes, differential outcomes, and combined-effects outcomes of protocol and skill training instruction were investigated. The following hypotheses, two for each…

This paper reviews the history and current state of research and development on microteaching and technical skills training, particularly as these are related to the Stanford University program. Background sections describe the historical development of the technical skills approach as a preservice teacher training program and its…

This paper synthesizes research in videotape utilization within several disciplines--teacher education, counselor education, psychological therapy, business training, and speech education--with three objectives: to bring mass communication educators upto-date in the non-broadcast uses and techniques of videotape; to provide guidelines for…

The purposes of this study were (1) to provide an objective description of the supervisor-teacher conference behavior in a micro-teaching situation, (2) to determine the combinations of teacher and supervisor characteristics that predict conference behavior and conference effectiveness, and (3) to determine the supervisor characteristics that…

Presents a multiple-activities approach for the preparation of language teachers through which student teachers experience classroom teaching, observe other teachers, conduct investigative projects of their teaching and its consequences, and discuss teaching in several contexts. (Author/CB)