Micro- teaching

Micro-teaching

1. GUNJAN SHARMA Assistant Professor Pragati College, Choubey Colony Raipur (CG)

2. INTRODUCTION Microteaching is a teacher training and faculty development technique whereby the teacher reviews a recording of a teaching session, in order to get constructive feedback from students. Microteaching was invented in the year 1961 at Stanford University by Dwight W. Allen.

3. MEANING OF MICROTEACHING Teaching of a small unit of content to the small group of students (6-10 number) in a small amount of time(5-10 min .) To train inexperience student-teachers for acquiring teaching skills . To improve the skills of experience teachers.

4. DEFINITION Allen D.W. (1966): Micro-teaching is a scaled down teaching encounter size and class time. Passi , B.K. (1976): T he most important point in microteaching is that teaching is practiced in terms of definable, observable, measurable and controllable teaching skills. Brent & Thomson, 1966: Microteaching is a technique aiming to prepare teacher candidates to the real classroom setting.

5. CHARACTERISTICS It is real teaching that focus developing teaching skill. It includes: 5-10 student Duration of 5-10 minute Small topic with few objectives Limited number of teaching skill It is highly individualized instruction . It provides immediate feed back It provides opportunity to modifying the behavior by repeating the performance.

6. MICROTEACHING CYCLE

7. Writing instructional objectives Introducing a lesson Fluencing in questioning Probing question Explaining I llustrating with example Stimulus variation Reinforcement of learning Nonverbal clues Increasing student participation Using blackboard Achieving closure Recognizing attending behavior TEACHING SKILLS:

8. ADVANTAGES Modification of teacher behaviour Knowledge of teaching skills Developing teaching skills Developing teaching efficiency Improving teaching practice Individualised training Regulating teaching practice Real teaching Reducing complexities Focus on teaching Continuous reinforcement

9. DISADVANTAGES It is skill oriented; Content not emphasized . A large number of trainees cannot be given the opportunity for re-teaching and re-planning . It is very time consuming technique . It requires special classroom setting. It covers only a few specific skills . It deviates from normal classroom teaching . It may raise administrative problem while arranging micro lessons

10. Microteaching involves presentation of micro lesson Audience..Small group of peers. Feedback given by peers role playing as students Participants learn about strengths & weakness in themselves as teachers. Plan strategies for improvement in performance. SUMMARY: