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 is a session-by-session lesson chart of component one of the Instructional Staff Development (ISD) program. The general purposes of this component are listed as follows: a) to provide participants with proper expectations concerning the purpose of the program, b) to promote a group feeling of familiarity among participants, c) to encourage…

A review of five key aspects of microteaching indicate that problems in program design and practice in the First World also may become endemic in the Third World. Exploitation of the literature, however, could bring microteaching in both contexts closer to its potential. (Author/MT)

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

Microteaching has developed since its inception at Stanford University in 1963. Basically it consists of a simplification of the teaching situation and the provision of feedback. The model, first applied to foreign language (FL) teaching by Robert Politzer, involves a definition of skills relevant to FL teaching and the preparation of performance…

A look at the procedure for the use of a videotape test to evaluate student understanding of teaching skills. (Author/HB)

A study of three teaching methods used in an educational psychology course was designed to observe the effects of each method and each combination of methods on the students' teaching skill and attitude toward educational psychology and microteaching. Three methods were manipulated: lectures on general technical skills related to teaching…

This paper is an abstract of a longer paper which was read at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in 1974. It begins with a brief background discussion on microteaching and goes on to list the teaching skills which microteaching develops. A brief summary of the research on microteaching is then given. The abstract…

The study compared the effect of two training methods on pre- and post-student teachers' use of pedagogical moves in teaching. One treatment group classified moves from two videotaped lessons while the other group classified moves from the typewritten transcripts of the videotaped lessons. The frequency of moves used by the student teachers was…

After 39 months, the performance of the subjects was still significantly superior to their precourse performance on 8 of the 10 behaviors that were scored. (Author)

This paper makes a case for the contribution of microteaching to competency based teacher education (CBTE). Microteaching, as a precursor to CBTE, is described as having had a direct influence on its acceptance and development. (JN)

An in-service microteaching program provided insights into specific skill areas and significant weaknesses in teaching practice. (MSE)

The use of microteaching in Britain to train teachers of English as a second language is described. Microteaching is defined as a teaching encounter that is scaled down in terms of class sizes, lesson length, and teaching complexity. Based on visits and observations, the organization, content, goals, and components of British microteaching…