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MICROTEACHING

MICROTEACHING

• Micro teaching is a training procedure aimed at simplifying the

complexities of regular teaching process.

• It is scaled down sample of teaching

• Micro teaching technique was first adopted at Stanford University,

USA in 1961, by Dwight W.Allen and his co-workera and is now

followed in many countries with modified techniques.

• The special feature of micro teaching is every aspects of teaching

is micro, the class is micro, period is micro, the content is micro,

and the objective is micro.

• Micro teaching is a scaled down sample of

teaching in which a teacher teaches a small

unit to small group of 5 to 10 pupils for a

small period of 5 to 10 minutes.

•Such a situation offers a helpful setting for a

teacher to acquire new teaching skills and to

refine old ones. Micro-teaching is a new design

for teacher training, which provides trainees

with feedback about their performance

immediately after completion of lessons.

DEFINITION

• Microteaching is defined as “ a scaled down

teaching encounter in class size and class

time”(Allen).

OBJECTIVES OF MICRO

TEACHING

1. To enable teacher-trainees to learn and assimilate new teaching skills under controlled conditions.

2. To enable teacher-trainees to gain confidence in teaching, and to master a number of skills by dealing with small group of pupils.

CHARACTERISTICS

1. It is scaled down teaching.

2. It is less complex than regular teaching.

3. It involves lesser number of students, usually

5 to 10.

4. Its duration is short – about 5 to 10 minutes.

TEACHING SKILLS

• Teaching skill is a set of related convert behaviors of the teacher (verbal & non verbal)which are observable, definable, measurable, demonstrable and refinable through practice.

• The teacher uses teaching skills in pre-instructional and post instructional stages for achieving predetermined specific objectives.

Some of the skills are extensively used in routine teaching by all teachers. These skills are known

as CORE TEACHING SKILLS.

CORE TEACHING SKILLS

SKILL OF INTRODUCING LESSON

SKILL OF STIMULAS VARIATION

SKILL OF EXPLANATION

SKILL OF ILLUSTRATION WITH EXAMPLES

Skill of using Black board

SKILL OF PROBING QUESTIONS

Skill of questioning

SKILL OF REINFORCEING

STEPS IN MICRO TEACHING

1. Defining the skill/competency to be developed in terms of specific teaching behaviours.

2. Demonstration of the skill/competency by the teacher educator by taking a lesson

3. Based on the model, preparation of a lesson plan by the teacher trainee, for a suitable topic, which calls for application of the skill/competency anticipated.

4. Teaching of the lesson by the teacher trainee in a stimulated set up, in the presence of observers.

5. Providing of immediate feed-back to the teacher trainee by the observers with a view to help him improve the skill.

6. Arranging re-planning, re-teaching and re-feedback sessions.

7. Repetition of „plan, teach,feedback,re-plan,re-teach and re- feedback‟ cycle till the skill is mastered.

The exact teach- reteach cycle of micro-teaching can be presented

diagrammatically as given below

PLAN

TEACH

FEEDBACK

RE-PLAN

RE-TEACH

RE-FEEDBACK

PHASES OF MICROTEACHING

• Knowledge acquisition phases

• Skill acquisition phases

• Transfer phase

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION PHASE

SKILL ACQUISITION PHASE TRANSFER PHASE

OBSERVE ANALYSE PREPARE PRACTISE EVALUATE TRANSFER

The demonstration of skill by teacher educator

The steps involved & discuss the demonstration

Micro lesson The predetermined skill

The performance of trainee

The skill to actual teaching situation

ADVANTAGES OF MICRO

TEACHING • Teacher-trainees trained through micro-teaching are

founded to perform better than ones trained by traditional method.

• It employs real teaching for the purpose of developing skills.

• It helps to accomplish specific teacher competencies.

• The teaching practice gains a higher degree of organisation because factor such as time, number of students, etc..could be controlled.

ADVANTAGES OF MICRO

TEACHING • It helps to gain deeper knowledge due to feedback and re-plan, re-teach cycles.

• It is more effective in modifying teacher behaviour.

• It helps in developing important teaching skills such as questioning,reinforcement

of student participation,etc..

• It is an effective technique for transfer of teaching competencies to the classroom

• It provides many opportunities for trainees to build up desired patterns of

behaviour in a non-threatening set-up.

LIMITATIONS OF MICRO

TEACHING

• It is skill oriented; content is not emphasised

• It emphasises specific skills;but neglects integrated skills.

• It covers only a few specific skills.

• It may raise administrative problems while arranging micro lessons.

CONCLUSION • Micro teaching is a scaled down sample of teaching

in which a teacher teaches a small unit to small group of 5 to 10 pupils for a small period of 5 to 10 minutes.After mastering each specific skill through micro-teaching sessions,the teacher educator can arrange a number of „macro‟ sessions in the line of actual classroom situations.This will help in integrating the specific skills into complex major skills.

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