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Micro Teaching 1
Micro Teaching 1
Micro Teaching 1
idea of micro-teaching originated for the first time at Stanford University in USA. team of experts was assigned the development of testing and evaluation tools to measure the attainment of teaching skills.
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lead to the development of a systematic and accurate method of giving feedback to the teacher trainee. All the steps of micro-teaching technique : Plan Teach Feedback Replan Reteach Refeedback were formulated.
Meaning
Micro teaching is a procedure in which a student teacher practices teaching with a reduce number of pupils in a reduced period of time with emphasis on a narrow and specific teaching skill.
Microteaching is a scaled down teaching encounter in class size and time - D.W.Allen(1961)
Definition
To enable teacher trainees to learn and assimilate new teaching skills under controlled conditions.
Microteaching is a highly individualized training device Microteaching is an experiment in the field of teacher education which has been incorporated in the practice teaching schedule
It is a student teaching skill training technique and not a teaching technique or method
Microteaching is micro in the sense that it scale down the complexities of real teaching
Practicing one skill at a time
Immediate feedback helps in improving, fixing and motivating learning The students are providing immediate feedback in terms of peer group feedback, tape recorded/CCTV
Microteaching advocates the choice and practice of one skill at a time
explained to the teacher trainees in terms of the purpose and components of the skill with suitable examples.
The supervisor reinforces the instances of effective use of the skill and draws attention of the teacher trainee to the points where he could not do well.
Step VIII -The supervisor observes the reteach lesson and gives re-feed back to the teacher trainee with convincing arguments and reasons.
RE -FEEDBACK
PLAN
RE-TEACH
TEACH
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FEEDBACK
It helps to accomplish specific teacher competencies. It caters the need of individual differences in the teacher training.
It is more effective in modifying teacher behaviour.
It is skill oriented; Content not emphasized. A large number of trainees cannot be given the opportunity for re-teaching and replanning. It is very time consuming technique. It requires special classroom setting.
It deviates from normal classroom teaching. It may raise administrative problem while arranging micro lessons