A study was conducted to determine to what extent student teaching behaviors can be changed as a result of participation in the Far West Laboratory Minicourse I, "Effective Questioning Techniques" (a program relying on microteaching, filmed instructional and model lessons, and on teacher planning and self-evaluation of his own videotaped lessons).…

An experiment was performed to compare the relative effectiveness of two microteaching procedures. In the low-cost treatment, student teachers received training in higher cognitive questioning skills by means of written modeling procedures (Subjects read transcripts of videotape model lessons) and audiotape feedback after each microteaching…

Research performed pursuant to a contract with the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Education.

The Social Science Observation Record is a systematic observation system. When used to provide feedback to preservice social studies teachers participating in a teach-reteach microteaching sequence, subjects obtained a significant increase in value-oriented student behavior. When used to analyze printed transcripts of mathematics teachers,…

Microteaching offers prospective teachers the opportunity to learn teaching skills, to study their own teaching, and to study the teaching of others. Microteaching has been described as a "scaled-down" teaching situation, involving 3 to 10 teacher education students in a 5- to 20-minute lesson, which is often videotaped for future reference. Four…