This study analyzed aspects of the supervisory conference that uses the vehicle of microteaching to improve supervisor behavior. Six members of a Principles and Practices of Secondary Teaching class assumed the role of teacher in the microteaching situation, and graduate students enrolled in a Principles of Educational Supervision course performed…

A staff development conference sponsored by the Massachusetts Bureau of Adult Services for thirty teachers of English as a second language included microteaching techniques for adult educators. (MS)

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)

Microteaching was developed in 1963 at Stanford University and was used initially for the training of secondary school teachers. It is controlled practice of specific teaching behavior; therefore, the role of the supervisor is important. Microteaching has the following advantages: faculty have to get together to agree on common purposes in its…

This 414-item bibliography contains citations of published and unpublished documents and journal articles processed by the Clearinghouse between July 1968 and June 1970 related to the "means and methods by which pre- and in-service school personnel can secure structured practice in developing skills and insights." Publication dates of the…

Presented is the final report on the Special Education Microteaching Clinic at Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville) which incorporates a practice teaching technique in which a student teaches a lesson, is critiqued and shown a videotape, then reteaches the lesson. Section I, the overview, includes a presentation of the Microteaching…

Presented is a manual on special education microteaching, an approach to training teachers of handicapped children in which the student teacher teaches a lesson, is critiqued and shown a videotape, then reteaches the lesson. In Chapter 1, several characteristics of microteaching which facilitate the training program's effectiveness and efficiency…

This second of two volumes resulting from a seminar attended by 232 vocational-technical leaders from 34 states and the District of Columbia, covers the general sessions and the sub-seminar on micro-teaching and video recording. General session presentations on teacher education by Martin W. Essex, Virgil S. Lagomarceno, and William G. Loomis are…

This book on a rather widely known but less widely applied technique for teacher education is intended both to inform those people who are unfamiliar with microteaching and to caution those who see it as a final answer to teacher training. The first chapter provides a working definition of microteaching; surveys its importance in supervision,…

This chronological survey, extending from the laws passed in 1642 in Massachusetts to establish schools for the teaching of reading and writing to the 1968 Guidelines for the Preparation of Teachers of English, presents a discussion of varying attitudes toward English teaching and English teacher education. Divergent opinions on many topics are…

The two papers in this report are: (1) "The Use of Portable Video Tape Recorders and Micro-Teaching Techniques to Improve Inservice Training in Area Vocational Schools and in the Vocational-Technical Programs of Junior Colleges," and (2) "The Use of Portable Video Tape Recorders and Micro-Teaching Techniques to Improve Supervision…

This article examines communication problems in teacher education programs and cites programs or approaches and research efforts in teacher education. Needs of prospective teachers and the quality of student teaching are examined. Instructional procedures and components that may improve learning in teacher education programs include…