For twenty years, the author of this article has helped prepare teachers for middle and high school classrooms. As with most lengthy journeys, this author relates how her journey as a teacher educator had taken different pathways. Early in her career, she had emphasized mainly what teachers should know: levels of Bloom's taxonomy, types of…

A discussion of the results of a microteaching experiment in Great Britain that indicates that self-instructional microteaching is effective in bringing about large and stable changes in teacher behavior. (Author/HB)

This study evaluated the effects of a sequence of microteaching tasks on the teaching behavior of secondary education students. Audio tape recorded lessons of two groups of students were compared. One group of 27 taught ten lessons in a teaching laboratory using a sequence of instructional and learning tasks. A control group of 27 taught two…

In an experiment to test the effectiveness of discrimination training--contrasting good and poor teacher behaviors and demonstrating the stimulus occasions for these behaviors--as compared with feedback from an instructor in microteaching, a discrimination model for a limited class of teaching behaviors was devised and subjects were divided into…

This paper deals with the use of microteaching techniques to train student teachers in stimulating learners' questions. Research was carried out at the Gordon Teachers Training College, Haifa, Israel. A rating scale, including teaching patterns stimulating learners' questions, was prepared from the existing literature and the analysis of pilot…

This article presents seven teaching behaviors which have been organized into a sequential progression for utilization with undergraduate trainees prior to student teaching. (RC)

This bibliography lists 151 manuscripts, dissertations and theses, journal articles, and books on videotaped microteaching prepared by American sources between 1964-1978 that have not been indexed in the ERIC data base. The documents are in chronological order and include sources. (Author/CJ)

Procedures for training undergraduates in basic teaching skills were developed over 7 semesters. The training involved six individual experimental programs of a semester's duration and a follow-up study of the students in the Spring of 1970 program. The training has been given to 438 elementary education majors. The purpose of the program was to…

This study examined outcomes of a supervision practicum in which graduate students supervised undergraduates in teacher education during microteaching activities and studied their supervisory behavior using videotape replays of conferences with teacher-trainees. (Editor)

Secondary teacher education programs were surveyed in order to determine: (1) How widespread is the use of microteaching? (2) Where is microteaching found within the programs? (3) How are selected operational features of microteaching used? (4) With what frequency are selected operational features used? It was found that the number of secondary…

This is a trainer's manual for the fourth of six components of the Instructional Staff Development (ISD) program. Where the previous components focused on a teacher-directed inquiry, the manual describes the goal of this component as the creation of an environment in which students can use self-directed inquiry. The manual notes a great deal of…

This trainer's manual for the fifth of six components of the Instructional Staff Development (ISD) program is designed to prepare teachers to develop a model for use in Pupil Centered Inquiry teaching (PCI). This component is said to build on the teacher's knowledge, skills, and attitudes gained in the first four components; the entire program is…