MICROTEACHING

                  

                  MICRO TEACHING

              

 Micro Teaching

• A method of training teaching technique.
•  Simplifies the complex teaching process so that the student-teacher can cope with it.    
•  Scaled down Teaching Encounter.
•  Teaching reduced in class size, concept, time and the number of pupils.

General Teaching Skill – Allen & Ryan

1. Stimulus Variation
2. Set introduction
3. Closure
4. Silence and non-verbal cues
5. Reinforcement of student participation
6. Fluency in asking questions
7. Probing questions
8. Higher order questions
9. Divergent questions
10. Recognizing attending behavior
11. Illustrating and use of examples
12. Lecturing
13. Planned repetition
14. Completeness of communication

Micro Teaching Process

Class size - reduced to about 5-10 pupils
Length of the lesson - reduced to about 5-10 minutes.
Focus - one teaching skill at a time; and not on the content of the lesson.

Components of Micro Teaching

•  The teacher trainee
•  Students [5-10]
• Observers [2]
• Supervisors [Teacher-Educator – 1]

MICRO TEACHING CYCLE 

           

I. PLANNING

               

• Selection of particular skill
• Presentation of a model demonstration lesson – a particular skill
• Observation of a model lesson 
• Criticism of the model lesson 
• Preparation of a micro lesson plan 

II. TEACHING

            

OBSERVATION OF TAECHING SKILL

• Peer/college  Supervisorsž
• Rating based on frequencies
• Can be recorded in a tape recorder or on a videotapež
• Coding Performa – Skill of Stimulus Variation
• Components  1st minute  
• 2nd minute  
• 3rd minute  
• 4th minute 
• 5th minute 
• 6th minute
• 30 sec  
• 30 sec  
• 30 sec  
• 30 sec 
• 30 sec 
• 30 sec  
• 30 sec
• 30 sec 
• 30 sec 
• 30 sec  
• 30 sec  
• 30 sec 
• Teacher
• Movement             
• Teacher
• Gesture             
• Change in
• Speech
• patterns             
• Shifting sensory
• focus             
• Pause             
• Others
• (Specify)             

III. FEEDBACK

               

• Individual Feedback to student teachers.
• Include the tallies and ratings on observation schedule.
• Interpretation about the performance.

MICROTEACHING SETTING

1. TIME
      a. Teach

      b. Feedback

      c.  Re-Pla

      d. Re-Teach

      e. Re-Feedback      

           6 Minute

           6 Minute

           12 Minutes

           6 Minutes

           6 Minutes

           36 Minutes 

2.   No. of students teacher in a group 10 

3. Supervisor(s)  1 or 2
4.   Feedback by the peer supervisor(s) 

     Teaching Skill – by B.K.Passi

1. Writing instructional objectives
2. Introducing a lesson
3. Fluency in questioning
4. Probing questions
5. Explaining
6. Illustrating with the example
7. Stimulus Variation
8. Silence and non-verbal cues
9. Reinforcement
10. Increasing pupil participation
11. Using black-board
12. Achieving closure

13. Recognizing attending behavior

                      TEACHING SKILLS 

            

•   PLANNING STAGE 
• INTRODUCTORY STAGE    
• PRESENTATION STAGE
• CLOSING STAGE

 

Writing instructional objectivesž

• Organizing the content
• Introducing the lesson 
• Presentation skills
• Questioning skills
• Management skills
• Achieving closure
• Giving assignments
• Evaluating the pupil`s progress

 

Diagnosing pupil learning difficulties and taking remedial measures
Major skills of Microteaching practiced in Teacher Training Institutions
Skills of introducing a lesson
     -Skills of explaining
     -Skills stimulus Variation
     -Skills of Questioning
     -Skills of Reinforcement
     -Skills of Illustration
     -Skills of Black Board Writing
     -Skills of achieving closure
     -Skills of Introducing a Lesson
     -Linking with past experience
     -Link between introduction and main parts
 

Use of appropriate devices/ techniques like questioning, example, etc. Skills of Explaining
     -Using beginning and concluding statement
     -Using explaining links
     -Question to the test students understanding
     -Question follows by correct responses