This book explores ways to prepare teachers to teach English as an International Language (EIL) and provides theoretically-grounded models for EIL-informed teacher education. The volume includes two chapters that present a theoretical approach and principles in EIL teacher education, followed by a collection of descriptions of field-tested teacher…

Microteaching techniques have been used for teacher training since the mid 1960s. Despite its usefulness, as affirmed by pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), there are numerous criticisms on the shortcomings of microteaching activities. Specifically, it (a) oversimplifies the classroom learning and…

This paper is organized around eleven tentative generalizations derived from the literature, which may be helpful in the preparation of models for use in microteaching programmes. (Author)

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

The "how" of teaching is as significant as the "what". This was the content of a nonlecture session at the N.C.G.E. Milwaukee meeting that was structured to give participants an experience in a dynamic model of process instruction. (Author/JH)

Social learning theory is the theory that is applied through microteaching. The two critical sets of social learning variables mediated through microteaching are those associated with modeling and feedback. Microteaching is also a way of bringing specific teaching responses under experimental and behavioral control. Thus in each microteaching…

This paperback book reports progress in developing minicourses (short, self-instructional courses designed to train teachers in specific classroom skills) to show how these courses can make a significant contribution to the present system of teacher education and describes how research and development is used in education, using the minicourse…

This group of six papers deals with various aspects of the Far West Laboratory of Educational Research and Development project to develop minicourses, short inservice training courses using the microteaching technique and videotape recorder to teach specific teaching behavior patterns. Included are 1) "Overview of the Teacher Education Program,"…

Reviews research related to science teacher education which suggests that specific verbal and non-verbal instructional skills can be developed by providing positive models of desired behavior, varying the amount of practice teaching during the training, providing specific feedback on limited behaviors, and modifying training according to trainee…

Research performed pursuant to a contract with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Education.

TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE MODELING PROCEDURES FOR MODIFYING TEACHER BEHAVIOR (APPLIED, ILLUSTRATIVELY, TO HIGHER-ORDER QUESTIONING BEHAVIOR), VIDEOTAPES WERE MADE OF A SERIES OF FOUR MICROTEACHING SESSIONS REPRESENTING IN A 2 X 2 X 2 FACTORIAL DESIGN (N 103) THAT FURNISHED EIGHT EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS, (1) SYMBOLIC VERSUS…

Articles is this issue represent the substantive content of a series of 25 workshops sponsored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). The four major articles discuss innovative models based on four approaches for improving teacher performance: (1) "Interaction Analysis" by Edmund J. Amidon, San Francisco State…

Psychological modeling, the phenomenon referring to the tendency of individuals to imitate higher status persons, peer group members, and other relevant models, has been used as a device for modification of existing behavior and acquisition of previously unlearned behavior. In this study, 48 preservice teachers were randomly assigned to two…

This paper presents a training model, Skill Development in Teaching (SKIT), designed for use in improvement programs for inservice teachers and in teacher education programs for preservice trainees. An introductory section notes the early use of Flanders' interaction analysis as a feedback tool for teachers, outlines a 1962 model in which it was…

The two main purposes of this study were: (1) to determine the effectiveness of a teacher training program "Minicourse 9: Higher Cognitive Questioning"; and (2) to compare the relative effectiveness of two instructional techniques in changing teacher behavior-observation of videotaped model teachers displaying classroom skills, and reading of…