The necessity for program modification to meet existing local needs and the current thrust toward competency-based instruction led to this curriculum development project. The intent of the project was to determine the feasibility of incorporating educational innovations within the Business Education Student Teaching Program in order to begin to…

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…

This paper holds that the "supervisory" function should be basically one of teaching teachers rather than evaluation of teaching styles, with the consultant on teaching guiding a teacher in the systematic analysis and modification of his teaching performance through a systematic decisionmaking process. In the first half of this paper supervisory…

Self-concepts of teachers and student teachers have been found to predict certain specific teaching behaviors. This study explored these possible relationships in the microteaching setting. Self-Report Inventory and OScAR measures were obtained on 51 students, all secondary teacher candidates. Correctional and ANOVA procedures yielded only a few…

As one phase of a research program on teacher effectiveness, five studies were completed which sought procedures for aiding teachers in the acquisition and expression of hypothetico-deductive verbal structuring through microteaching. Hypothetico-deductive verbal behaviors have been found to be related to desirable pupil outcomes. The evidence…

A study attempted to improve the results of correlating personality characteristics with teaching behavior within the setting of a microteaching laboratory. Self-theory constructs were used to predict teaching behavior. Subjects (80 education students) were administered the Self-Report Inventory (SRI) and the Adjective Rating Scale for Self…

Three premises underlie the practice of microteaching: that much of teaching consists of behaviors, that the total performance can be broken into smaller pieces of behavior with little consideration given to the relationship between these parts, and that of a teaching performance can be usefully analyzed without consideration of what precedes or…

Author found that the verbal behavior of an experimental group was significantly more indirect than that of the control group, supporting the hypothesis that audio tapes are effective for observational learning of a specific teaching behavior. (Editor)

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) when applied to an instructional training system, can be used to upgrade industrial trainers on good classroom behavior. (Author)

The purpose of a study was to identify factors impacting on supportive behavior exhibited by pre-service home economics education teachers that relate to student-teacher interaction. Four types of positive affective actions were examined: verbal, physical contact, facial, and physical proximity. A pretest/posttest design used videotaped…

This module is designed to help the learner develop a present process of delivery for a learning activity developed by the Florida Parent Education model. The module begins with a prospectus that explains the purpose of the Florida Parent Education Model and the reason for creating this module. Four enabling objectives are included, each of which…

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…

A study examined the comparative effects on microteaching performance of (1) eight different methods of teacher training and (2) the interaction of method with student characteristics. Subjects, 71 enrollees in an educational psychology course, were randomly assigned to eight treatment groups (including one control group). Treatments consisted of…