TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS CAN BE USED TO IMPROVE TEACHER EDUCATION. A MULTI-STATE TEACHER EDUCATION PROJECT PLANS AND DEVELOPS PROGRAMS FOR MICROTEACHING WITH THE HELP OF VIDEOTAPE RECORDERS (VTR). MICROTEACHING, THE ISOLATION OF SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF THE TEACHING TASK, ENABLES TRAINEES TO FOCUS ON AND ACQUIRE TECHNIQUES OF INSTRUCTION WITH THE…

Examines the relationship between evaluations of four pretraining screening activities designed to approximate behaviors teachers are likely to perform and supervisor ratings of student teacher effectiveness. (Author)

Describes a microteaching program that integrates theory and practice for student teachers. (HS)

Although there is not much data on microteaching because it has been in use only nine years, the available data indicates that it is very effective for teacher training courses. Bibliography. (AF)

Discusses a study that concluded that reflective teaching is as effective as microteaching in preparing students to teach. No differences were found in the dependent variables according to the type of teaching laboratory. Student attitudes toward teaching, perceptions of teaching and teaching ability, and performance during student teaching were…

Microteaching is designed 'to develop new teaching skills and refine old ones'. Does it work? (Editor)

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…

A TRANSCRIPTION WAS MADE OF A GROUP DISCUSSION CONDUCTED TO DEVELOP A SCALE FOR MAKING QUANTIFIED RATINGS OF THE INTERACTIONS OF STUDENT TEACHERS AND PUPILS AS OBSERVED FROM A FILM OF A 15-MINUTE LESSON PRESENTED BY THE STUDENT TEACHER. THE INTERACTIONS WERE TO BE JUDGED ON THE BASIS OF THE AMIDON-FLANDERS INTERACTION ANALYSIS SCALE, AND A NEW…

A program was initiated at Indiana State University (ISU), Terre Haute, to enable students to complete their student teaching during the summer. Twenty-four students participated in the program which provided four hours of activity daily, two to four hours of which were spent in teaching. Principles of using video tape for studying lesson…

Examines the range of strategies that can be used to promote reflection, focusing on microteaching as a vehicle for enabling students to become aware of their values, attitudes, and assumptions about learning as these are enacted within microteaching. The subsequent feedback becomes a dialogue between student, peer, teacher fellow, and tutor that…

This study was designed to observe the effect of two basic variations of a film mediated model on teacher trainees' acquiring the technique of asking questions that require thought before being answered; it attempted to discover whether the subjects could best learn this technique by watching it illustrated by a filmed model, or by engaging in…