A study attempted to improve the results of correlating personality characteristics with teaching behavior within the setting of a microteaching laboratory. Self-theory constructs were used to predict teaching behavior. Subjects (80 education students) were administered the Self-Report Inventory (SRI) and the Adjective Rating Scale for Self…

Teaching modalities and in-service training activities showing promise of increasing student learning and teaching effectiveness were identified by 25 community/junior college instructors who participated in a six-week institute for training in Flanders Interaction Analysis and questioning strategies. The Delphi process, surveys, and campus…

Findings indicated that if the number and length of microteaching lessons were increased, one could expect student teachers to increase competence in establishing and maintaining student verbal expression in the classroom. Sixty junior secondary education majors were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Group A had two quarters of…

Microteaching (MT) has been used for teacher training in the United States for over ten years with varying amounts of success. This newsletter reviews two experiments in MT that were conducted in Sweden. The first experiment sought to determine whether MT was appropriate for teacher training. Using a factorial design study supplemented by…

This preparation of the Temple-Philadelphia-Trenton Teacher Corps Program describes the use of the resources which are available to most colleges, universities, school systems, and communities to achieve the goals of technology in education--individualization and humanization. Staff deployment and characteristics (including intensity and diversity…