The cultivation target of physical education major in normal universities is mainly physical teachers' qualification in basic education. Training of teaching-plan-telling on students of sports teaching major in normal universities has significant meaning to enhance the quality of students in a comprehensive way, realize the target of professional…

This manual contains a description of microteaching and the format to be used at the Ottawa Microteaching Clinic. Three background papers, which include data on programs already in existence, are "Microteaching: An Intermediate Step," with a 21-item annotated bibliography, by Patrick Babin; "An Overview of Microteaching"…

Microteaching is a successful analytical tool because of its precision and simplicity, its low pressure approach, and the fact that it encourages experimentation. In addition, the technique is easily mediated, replicated, and controlled. (Author/JD)

Description of the main features of micro-teaching and some suggestions on how the micro-lesson can help those who are studying teaching. (Author/MM)

The effectiveness of microteaching as a method of training student teachers in human relations skills is assessed. (BRT)

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…

A study was conducted to determine differences between teachers trained in the Nebraska University Secondary Teacher Education Projects (NUSTEP) and those trained in a standard program. The NUSTEP program was composed of three classes which were also offered in the standard program; NUSTEP students, however, practiced teaching skills using…

A study examined the comparative effects on microteaching performance of (1) eight different methods of teacher training and (2) the interaction of method with student characteristics. Subjects, 71 enrollees in an educational psychology course, were randomly assigned to eight treatment groups (including one control group). Treatments consisted of…

A discription is given of how the "miniteaching" format of instruction in teacher education improves and extends the microteaching concept. (JD)

A study examined the effects of verbal and perceptual dimensions of individual differences in relation to the efficacy of two different kinds of modeling procedures in the acquisition of a teaching skill (analytic questioning). Aptitude tests for cognitive factors plus specially developed audiovisual tests were administered to 121 intern teachers…

Microteaching, a technique for training teachers to develop specific teaching skills through the use of a scaled down classroom situation, has proved to be not only effective but also strongly appealing to teachers. A state-of-the-art paper entitled "Microteaching: History and Present Status" prepared by the authors for the ERIC…

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…

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…