The Social Science Observation Record is a systematic observation system. When used to provide feedback to preservice social studies teachers participating in a teach-reteach microteaching sequence, subjects obtained a significant increase in value-oriented student behavior. When used to analyze printed transcripts of mathematics teachers,…

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…

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 basic manual designed to introduce helical scan videotape recording is written in nontechnical style. The operating principles of videotape recording are explained, and practical standards for selecting basic equipment for a single camera system are suggested. This includes cameras, camera supports, lenses, cables, tape recorders, monitors,…

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…

This is a program report on the Metcalf Microteaching Project at Illinois State University, 1969. Microteaching is defined as an act of teaching reduced in terms of the amount of content taught (a single concept, principle, or skill), the number of pupils instructed (three to five), and the time allotted (10 to 15 minutes). A prime benefit 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…

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.)…

Assesses the overall impact of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign microteaching model as perceived by secondary teacher candidates. Reports that teacher candidates found the model effective for improving their understanding of the different teacher- and learner-centered teaching techniques. (MM)

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)