Examines an experiment which compares the effects of two forms of laboratory teaching experience (reflective teaching and microteaching) on student teachers' views of themselves as teachers, attitudes toward teaching, perceptions of the role of teaching, attitudes toward the type of laboratory teaching experience engaged in, and teaching…

Previous research on the use of interaction process analysis and microteaching in teacher education indicates that these two methods of achieving specified behavioral changes in the teaching behavior of student teachers are at least as effective, if not more so, than traditional methods. Attention now turns to the different ways that interaction…

Earlier research has demonstrated that verbal teaching behaviors can be modified through the Teaching Laboratory (TL), which consists of peer group microteaching experiences. This study investigated whether or not these behaviors would persist into later student teaching. Each of 50 secondary student teachers, who were divided into control and…

This experiment was conducted to determine whether preservice teachers taking a combination of Minicourses and student teaching (the experimental group) would develop greater teaching skills than teachers taking only student teaching (the control group). Pre- and post-video tapes of their teaching performances were scored and compared using…

The value of four pre-training screening devices for predicting student teaching effectiveness was examined. The four activities were a) microteaching for 7 minutes, b) microteaching for 30 minutes, c) role playing using reality therapy, and d) values conflict discussion. These activities were administered to 52 undergraduates in the Brigham Young…

This study consisted of extending the schedule of teaching social studies methods to relate experiences at a high school, conducting in-service instruction for cooperating teachers, and providing advanced techniques of supervision with videotaping for supervisors. (Author/RK)

Outlines the undergraduate and graduate programs in Foreign Language Education at Florida State University. (FB)

Students in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria have their student teaching performance assessed through the use of video-recorded micro-teaching situations. Three sources of video-teaching situations are used in the training of student teachers: (1) while teaching specific high school subjects; (2) senior teachers in their high…

Microteaching has been widely used in the training of high school teachers for the past several years. In some cases, trainees have taught actual secondary students in the microteaching situation. In other cases, the trainees have played the role of students in a peer-teaching mode of microteaching. This study compared the real and peer-teaching…

Statistical analysis of the videotape recorder as a feedback device used to train teacher interns produced four conclusions: that videotape feedback to teacher interns did not produce behavioral changes significantly different from those teacher interns who did not receive feedback; that the addition of inputs such as critique and type scripts did…

This study found that microteaching experience significantly improved subsequent performance of student teachers on five of six specific factors derived from the Teacher Performance Evaluation Scale (TPES). Subjects in the study were 37 secondary education majors who were randomly assigned to experimental or control groups. Students in the…

The object of this study was to assess costs, practical problems, and personal attitudes connected with using videotape recording (VTR) as an adjunct to in-person supervision of student teachers. Student teachers' performance in the classroom was recorded by videotape technicians once or twice during their student teaching experience, and the…