This exploratory study focuses on four non-native English speaking secondary content teachers in a short-term immersion program aimed at introducing them to language teaching methods for secondary school content instruction through the medium of English. Such programs have been found to have largely mixed results for language performance. This may…

Discusses microteaching, a training context in which a teacher's situation is reduced in scope or simplified in systematic ways. This article addresses microteaching as an inservice tool, and discusses how school-based microteaching can be beneficial to all involved in the learning and teaching process. (Author/VWL)

Discussion of micro-teaching, a scaled down teaching exercise for teacher trainees developed at Stanford University; a brief lesson consisting of one particular teaching skill and presenting one particular concept in the trainee's subject matter field is taught, followed by immediate supervisory and pupil feedback on the performance. (FWB)