A micro team teaching project was designed to give student teachers an increased responsibility for planning, executing, and evaluating an instructional program; to provide classroom teachers who had not previously taught in a teaching team with the opportunity to learn about the dynamics of team teaching through organizing teams of their own; to…

Cooperating teachers, college supervisors, and student teachers must work as a team to plan student-teaching programs which will provide opportunities for evaluating teacher performance and subject matter competence and which will encourage individual teaching styles. The evaluation of student-teacher performance can be improved by three-way…

The 1971 and 1972 summer Institutes in Adult Basic Education-TESOL (ABE-TESOL) held at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee are described. The purpose of the institutes was to train experienced teachers of adults who speak either a foreign language or a nonstandard dialect of English and who have achieved the educational equivalence of eighth…

A method for combining the techniques of microteaching with those of interaction process analysis is presented. Using this method a matrix analysis can be performed which will give a teacher feedback on the target objectives for a given microteaching session. This handbook gives the rationale for this method, presents a General Inventory Guide for…

The 12-month Federally funded project at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut was designed to prepare adult basic education (ABE) administrators and teachers (serving urban Puerto Ricans, blacks, and whites) to become teacher trainers. Focus was on building a multi-regional teacher capability in ABE through teacher training models. Phase one…

A specific scheme is provided for the teacher trainee, the experienced teacher, and the supervisor to assist in organizing and evaluating multicomponent English lessons. Based on the premise that effective instructional moves must be pre-structured and time sequences left flexible, 12 specific lesson/teaching strategies are offered to extend the…

A factorial design with 48 student teachers (40 were enrolled in the author's Social Studies Curriculum course at the University of California) was used to study the effect of a Social Studies curriculum course, self-confrontation on videotape, videotape-coding practice, and Guided Self-Analysis (GSA) upon the nature of teachers questions, teacher…

This is part of a series of studies conducted to assess the use of micro-teaching and video recording as a feedback device in teacher education. Fourth in the series and the first field test, the study was designed to test two variations in the techniques, feedback and type of student taught in a distributive education methods class at the Ohio…

Discovery of which learner characteristics or aptitudes interact with different methods of instruction is the objective of this research study. A model is used to match the cognitive, motivational, value, and sensory orientations of the student with forms of presentation considered compatible with characteristics of the learner. Description of the…

This investigation attempted to determine whether pre-service teachers who had been trained through micro-teaching in the skill of using reinforcement could bring about any change in minority youngsters' attitudes about themselves and about school. A panel study was done of twenty-eight pre-service teachers in a team-taught, competency-based…

The paper discusses a blended learning concept for a university teacher training course for prospective teachers of English. The concept aims at purposeful learning using different methods and activities, various traditional and electronic media, learning spaces covering contact and distance learning, and task-based learning modules that begin…

This study assessed perceptions of 564 undergraduate elementary education majors enrolled in a music education course--Music for the Elementary Classroom--at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux (Louisiana) that involved microteaching using audiovisual equipment. The instructor's observations were also assessed in this 7-year study, which was…

A faculty development program primarily oriented toward the beginning professor at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, is described. Among the program components are workshops; meetings to provide information about policies, procedures, and facilities at the school; and meetings to involve faculty in…

A study compared effects of two forms of laboratory teaching experience (microteaching and reflective teaching) in an introductory teacher education course on students' views of themselves as teachers and their attitudes toward and perceptions of teaching. The population consisted of Ohio State University students in four sections of Agricultural…

This outline of instruction and student guide for a postsecondary level course for instructors is one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. The course is designed to provide the neccesary information that the student will need in planning and…