This review is concerned with self-confrontation counseling, which is defined as facing a subject with inconsistencies in his motivations or evasions. Such counseling involves two elements: the playback to a subject of his videotaped activity to allow him to view himself as others view him, and feedback to the subject in relation to the videotape.…

A discussion is presented of whether teacher education video playback practices can be informed by the experimental and theoretical literature on confrontation, particularly the literature outside teacher education. (Author/KM)

Preparing for simulated microteaching lessons is a traumatic experience at best. In trying to make the experience both more valuable and less generative of negative feelings, a peer critiqueing component was added to the evaluation process in this program. After teaching three simulations, the mean of the attitude toward microteaching and the…

MICROTEACHING AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY CONSISTS OF THE PRESENTATION OF A LESSON BY A STUDENT TEACHER TO A MICROCLASS OF THREE TO FIVE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. WHEN THESE STUDENTS ARE NOT AVAILABLE, THE MICROCLASS IS COMPOSED OF HIS PEERS FROM THE COLLEGE CLASS. THE TRAINEE'S INSTRUCTOR, OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS COLLEGE CLASS, AND THE MICROCLASS…