As part of the series of studies assessing micro-teaching and video recording in vocational and technical education, this study tested the feasibility of applying these techniques in the preparation of vocational teacher educators. Conducted as a simulated workshop for prospective teacher educators, the study involved 12 prospective teacher…

Presented in this report are the results of the feasibility testing of selected micro-teaching and video recording feedback techniques in a laboratory setting designed to simulate vocational teacher education. Volunteer teachers were selected and randomly assigned to three treatment groups in a repeated measurement design to compare the relative…

This book was designed to be read by new teachers. The first section is devoted to a description of the Montgomery County Public Schools' new teacher orientation program, a program based on a self-improvement strategy. The program description places the emphasis on microteaching; there are weekly group meetings with a leader, but as time…

Training procedures used with foreign language interms in the Stanford Secondary Teacher Education Program during the summer of 1970 are described in this memorandum. Principal departures from the more traditional microteaching procedures allow students to work in more realistic and natural settings while practice-teaching and permit replacement…

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…

Peer-group microteaching has been used for several years as an element of the foreign language methods course for Foreign Language Education students at the University of Minnesota. Students viewed the experience as the most important aspect of their pre-student-teaching courses and preparation experiences. The study is described. (CHK)

A review of recent research on teacher education yields seven strategies characteristic of effective teachers. (MJB)

Describes an experiment carried out in a comprehensive school by students at a teachers' college in the Ruhr. Lists the positive and negative results, as learned from questioning the student teachers and the pupils. Preliminary conclusions are drawn in favor of including microteaching in the teacher-training curriculum. (Text is in German.)…

Indicates that microteaching offers student teachers an opportunity to learn effective ways to present subject matter, to foster their communication skills, and to learn teaching methods and skills. Describes the microteaching program at Morehead State University in Kentucky, which uses videotapes to train home economics teachers. (FL)

Three historical phases of research and development on microteaching and the technical skills of teaching are reviewed. Suggestions for specific research topics are discussed, including research on the role of supervisor and on the development of learner skills. (Author/JN)

A series of empirical investigations of the impact of teacher implementation of the set induction teaching method on student behavior is summarized and discussed. (LH)

Two methods of qualitative program and student evaluation are employed by an experimental thematic teacher education program. Portfolios, maintained throughout undergraduate years, contain evidence reflecting student growth in five categories of teacher decision-making. Case studies assess strategic knowledge demonstrated by student responses to…