This paper provides information on the cost of the research underlying the Minicourse model as compared with the development cost of the Minicourse packages. It also estimates the cost that would be involved in achieving 30 percent implementation of Minicourses by elementary and secondary school teachers in the United States. Research costs are…

The Federally Assisted Staff Training project is designed for teachers in the inner-city schools. Over 15,000 teachers and other staff members of the Detroit public school system have participated in this in-service program since April 1966. The program covers eight phases: in-service consultant-leadership training, teacher behavior improvement…

The goals listed for this second component (of six) of the Instructional Staff Development (ISD) program include introduction to interaction analysis, practice in microteaching, and improvement of individual inquiry behavior. This trainer's manual is plotted concept-by-concept, objective-by-objective, with appropriate charts and tables. The manual…

The problem of improving university teaching is reviewed and is seen as part of the process of re-education and change. A teaching laboratory is proposed including provision for feedback mechanism, self-confrontation processes, simulation, and microteaching. Case studies of the use of microteaching and video recording are reported. (Editor/JT)

Reports a study utilizing self evaluation of videotaped teaching session by preservice secondary science teachers, on a ten point teaching strategy scale, from expository/direct to inductive/indirect, to assess the effects of microteaching and strategy analysis. Results indicate that systematic self analysis has a significant influence on teaching…

Microteaching experience was sufficient to train graduate education students to a significant level of competency. However, once they moved into a regular student teaching setting, their exhibition of the original target skills was dependent upon intervention by their cooperating teachers. (Author/MV)

Reports on the development and field testing of a program to prepare teachers in interpersonal skills. In this program eight affective or interpersonal skills that could be utilized by classroom teachers were identified. These skills were organized in a microteaching format, each described in writing and modeled on videotape. (Editor/RK)

Describes microteaching/videotaping experiences of university students in an elementary school social methods course. Topics discussed include literature on microteaching as a teacher training device, videotapes in lesson analysis, possible microteaching lessons, planning and taping a lesson, viewing and critiquing the tape, and benefits and…

Career education at Roosevelt School District, Phoenix, Arizona, prepares students for the world of work with a coordinated and innovative program. (MS)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of microteaching in developing the actual classroom use of twelve questionning skills when used immediately prior to a student teaching experience. (Author)

Reports a study to analyze relationships between noverbal skills acquired by preservice science teachers in a methods course and their application during student teaching. Microteaching format was used in the experimental group to develop nonverbal cues and silence. Analysis indicated experimental preservice science teachers differed significantly…

Describes a model summer institute for training teachers of English as a second language in adult basic education and the use of microteaching as a method for presentation of instructional materials. (RL)

Experiment designed to help meet the need for more controlled experiments on the effects of microteaching and to investigate different areas of teacher behavior over more than one time period. (Authors)

Discusses the rationale for minicourses and microteaching and the value of their use in methods courses to help prospective teachers acquire competence in basic teaching skills. (RB)