Micro Teaching

A Presentation on Micro Teaching - Introduction

1. MICRO TEACHING Dr. S. Prakash Principal Thiagarajar College of Preceptors Madurai

2. Definitions Micro-teaching is a scaled down teaching encounter. Micro-teaching is a system of controlled practice. Micro-teaching is a training technique.

3. Characteristics It is a teacher training technique and not a teaching method. It is a real teaching, though the teaching SITUATION IS SIMULATED. In micro teaching teacher trainee practices one a specific teaching skill at a time, till he/she attains mastery over the skill. It is a scale down teaching encounter in class size, content, class time. It operates on a predefined model. Plan, teach, feedback, re-plan, re-teach, re-feedback, etc.

4. Characteristics It allows for increased control of practice by providing feedback to the teacher trainee. It is not a substitute but a supplement to the teacher training programme . It is a cyclic process. The pre decided model is repeated till the trainee achieves the expected level of mastery. It is a highly individualized training device.

5. Advantages Helps in reducing the complexities of the normal class room teaching. Helps the teacher trainee gain more confidence in real teaching. It creates among the teacher trainees an awareness of various skills of which teaching is composed of. It stimulates the class room scene and gives the teacher trainee an experience of real teaching.

6. Advantages It helps in systematic and objective analysis of the pattern of class room communication through specific observation schedule. It is more effective in modifying teacher behaviour . It is an effective for transfer of teaching competencies to the class room. It helps in getting acquainted with class room manners to a certain extent. Feedback enables the teacher trainee to consciously concentrate on specific behavioural modification. It helps the teacher trainees in better understanding of the meaning and concept of the term teaching.

7. Advantages It has skilled supervision. Gives constructive feed back. It has the component skills approach. Here the activity of teaching as a whole is broken down for the learning purpose into its individual components. (skills) It focuses on sharpening the specific teaching skills and eliminating the errors. It enables understanding of behaviours important class room teaching.

8. Advantages It increases the confidence of learning to. It provides experts supervision and constructive feed back. It provides for repeated practice without adverse consequences to the training. A modified concept of Micro Teaching by. Here teaching skills are practiced in a controlled low rise environment.

9. Demerits Micro teaching is skill oriented and not content oriented. It covers only a few specific skills. Lack of material resources like video recording facility and trained supervisors. The question of integrating the skill is quite challenging. Teaching is not just a summation of teaching skills. Sufficient literature on micro teaching is not yet available A teaching skill is a group of teaching acts/ behaviours intended to facilitate pupils learning activity directly or indirectly.

10. Demerits It produces homogenized standard robots with set smiles and procedures. It is said to be a firm of play acting unnatural surrounding and the acquired skill may not be internalized. Micro Teaching is skill oriented and not content oriented. It covers only a few specific skills. Integrating the skill is quite challenging. Teaching is not first a summation of teaching skills. Sufficient literature on micro teaching is not yet available. Lack of material resource like video-recording facility and trained supervisors.

11. List of Skills Stimulus variation Set induction (Introduction) Closure Silence and non-verbal cues Reinforcement of student participation Fluency in asking questions Probing questions Higher order thinking questions Divergent questions Recognising attending behaviour Illustrations and use of examples Lecturing Planned repetition Complete the communication

12. List of Skills Skill of stimulus variation Skill of questioning (probing) Skill of explaining Skill of demonstration Skill of Communication Skill of re- inforcement Skill of illustration with example Skill of introduction Skill of closure

13. MT - Micro Teacher P - Peer Group C - Coder TK - Time Keeper TE - Teacher Educator MT P P P C C TK TE

14. Phases of Micro Teaching Clift (1976) described the following as the phases of micro teaching. Pre-active phase (knowledge acquisition phase) Interactive phase (skill acquisition phase) Post-active phase (Transfer phase)

15. Phase - I Pre-active phase: It emphases the understanding of the teaching skill that is to be learnt by the teacher trainee. It envisages the following steps. Orientation to micro teaching. Discussion of teaching skills with their components and teaching behaviour . Presentation of modern demonstration lesson by the teacher educator. Observation of the model lesson and criticism by the teacher trainee.

16. Phase - II Interactive phase: The main objective of this phase is to enable the teacher trainee to practice the teaching skill following micro teaching cycle. The steps are: Preparation of micro-lesson plan for the related teaching skill. Creating microteaching settings. Practice of teaching skill Feedback Re-planning Re-teaching Repetition of the micro teaching cycle.

17. Phase - III Post active phase: The main objective of this phase is to enable the teacher trainee to integrate the teaching skill in real or normal class room situation. Integration of teaching skill may be defined as process of selections organization and utilization of different teaching skills to form an effective pattern for realizing the specified instructional objectives in a teaching learning situation.

18. Knowledge Acquisition Skill Acquisition Phase Phases of Microteaching TRANSFER PHASE

19. Re-planning Micro Lesson Replan Session: In the light of the feed back and supervisor’s comments, the student teacher replans or restructures the same lesson or different lesson in order to use the same skill effectively. The mistakes are removed and necessary modifications are made.

20. Re-planning Micro Lesson Re Teach Session (re-teaching): The revised micro lesson is taught by the same student teacher to the same or different comparable group of pupils. The procedure of observation as need in teach session is followed. Re Feedback Session: On the basis of the audio tape or video tape or observation schedule feed back is provided again.

21. Link Practice In microteaching technique, teaching skills are practised one by one separately. At a time only one skill can be practised . While practising one skill, the use of that particular skill is maximised and other related skills may also occur taking indirect role. Skills practised in isolation have no meaning unless they are integrated in teaching. Hence, after attaining mastery in various skills, opportunity should be given to the student teacher to teach in a real situation integrating the skills mastered already. So a separate training programme is necessary for this purpose. This programme is called Link Practice.

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