A workshop on microteaching and foreign language teacher training was held at the London Institute of Education in December, 1978. The papers presented in this volume are the papers that were prepared for this workshop as well as one paper that was commissioned during the workshop. The contributions are as follows: (1) "Microteaching and Foreign…

This document is a coordinator's handbook written to accompany the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development's "Minicourse 8: Organizing Independent Learning: Primary Level." The minicourse was designed to develop teacher skill in organizing the classroom for independent learning through joint teacher-pupil effort. The…

Describes activities over the past three years of a group in Mexico dedicated to improving teacher training for teachers of French. (Text is in French.) (AM)

The paper's proposition is that many "overtly behavioristic" innovations in teacher education (performance-based education, microteaching, microsupervision, and microcounseling) are not in conflict with the humanistic approach; the critical need for understanding and application of the construct of intentionality demands that humanists…

Condensed from "The Arithmetic Teacher, Volume 15 (December 1968), 727-34.

The purpose of this investigation was to study the effect that four alternate types of instruction had on the frequency with which high inquiry questions were asked by preservice secondary science teachers. High inquiry questions involve comparing, explaining, conditional inferring, and evaluating. The four alternative instructional treatments…

This study determined whether preservice social studies teachers, who received training specifically designed to help them learn to recognize and write four types of questions associated with eliciting student values clarification statements, would elicit and permit more of these desired student verbal behaviors than preservice teachers who had…

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 document contains eight papers prepared by workshop participants: "Placement of Student Teachers: A Cooperative Venture Between Teacher Education Institutions and Public Schools" by Donald Abernethy, Robert Highland, Richard Terry, and Ruth Wilvert; "Handbook for Student Teachers" by Sister Rose McDonnell, Sister James…

Forty-two university students enrolled in an elementary school language arts methods course were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: (1) regular instruction supplemented by micro-teaching technique and videotape, (2) regular instruction supplemented by classroom observation in the public schools, and (3) regular instruction…

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…

This state-of-the art paper summarizes the history of microteaching's development and its rationale, the many uses of microteaching, and the research evidence on microteaching--a training procedure which has become an established element in the programs of many colleges, universities, and school districts in the education of various groups of…

Reported is a comparison of paradigms considered as useful and efficient for teacher preparation institutions having large pre-service teacher enrollments, limited instructional and supervisory personnel, and limited amounts of class contact time. Pre-service teachers' attitudes toward elementary school science and the experiences of presenting…

Three problems have plagued the traditional methods of evaluation of student teachers: the imposition of a supervisor's philosophy on the student, semantic vagueness in a supervisor's checklist of a student's performance, and determining each student's level of achievement. Wheeling College revised its field-based secondary teacher preparation…