This study reports on research concerning the effects of instruction based on protocol materials and training materials on concept acquisition and skill acquisition. Direct or intended outcomes, differential outcomes, and combined-effects outcomes of protocol and skill training instruction were investigated. The following hypotheses, two for each…

The Teaching Skills Program for students in secondary education is a part of a sequence of varied experiences in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, University of Kentucky. Through microteaching, every student participates in the following five teaching experiences: (1) instructional objectives and presentation, (2)…

The four-phase project, Toward Individualized Instruction, is a school-university partnership designed to meet the needs of physical educators for relevance during preservice teacher educators and individualized instructional programs. During phase one, students fulfill the following course requirements as they relate to their field base: (a)…

The hypotheses of this field study, conducted in connection with the Teaching Techniques Laboratory at the University of Illinois, were that student teachers who had participated in a supervised, laboratory, microteaching experience would: 1) receive more favorable pupil evaluations of an initial and final teaching effort on the Teacher…

This study describes and evaluates the first year of a 2-year masters degree urban teacher education program. The first year consists of four separate components, each of which is evaluated separately on the basis of previously stated objectives. The first component, Community Orientation and Study, involves a 6-week living experience in the inner…

The training and supervision of teaching assistants in German at Indiana University is summarized. Training through orientation, course work, teaching, visitation, and observation is outlined. Special attention is directed to group observation techniques. The use of video tape recordings and veteran teaching assistants to improve the effectiveness…

This paper reviews the history and current state of research and development on microteaching and technical skills training, particularly as these are related to the Stanford University program. Background sections describe the historical development of the technical skills approach as a preservice teacher training program and its…

This paper synthesizes research in videotape utilization within several disciplines--teacher education, counselor education, psychological therapy, business training, and speech education--with three objectives: to bring mass communication educators upto-date in the non-broadcast uses and techniques of videotape; to provide guidelines for…

This report briefly describes a summer workshop on individualizing instruction in which 34 teachers, instructional team leaders, and administrators participated. It lists workshop personnel and participants. The major part of the report consists of eight papers written by workshop staff. Titles are (1) "The Importance of Assessment and Behavioral…

The purposes of this study were (1) to provide an objective description of the supervisor-teacher conference behavior in a micro-teaching situation, (2) to determine the combinations of teacher and supervisor characteristics that predict conference behavior and conference effectiveness, and (3) to determine the supervisor characteristics that…

Instructional television (ITV) has generally not shown significant differences in instructional effectiveness when compared to conventional instruction techniques. In an effort to gather more conclusive data about these previous findings, this study sought to compare two instructional modes, ITV and textual presentation. Eleven juniors in a…

This text is a syllabus for the training of teachers of standard English to speakers of nonstandard dialects. The assumptions underlying this publication are that important elements of foreign-language teaching methodology are applicable to teaching standard English as a second dialect and that this methodology can be taught effectively if applied…

The use of videotape is a critical element in minicourse and microteaching for teacher preparation, yet its role and function have not been systematically researched. Recent studies examining audience and videotape feedback to explain the effectiveness of minicourse and microteaching obtained inconsistent findings. It is suggested that the mostly…

Student teaching is examined in relation to Maslow's theory of human motivation that proposes an inherent human tendency toward self-actualization. It is pointed out that the majority of student teachers operate in fear as they enter their final phase of teacher training, and according to Maslow, they are operating at the safety level, concerned…

Presents a multiple-activities approach for the preparation of language teachers through which student teachers experience classroom teaching, observe other teachers, conduct investigative projects of their teaching and its consequences, and discuss teaching in several contexts. (Author/CB)