For twenty years, the author of this article has helped prepare teachers for middle and high school classrooms. As with most lengthy journeys, this author relates how her journey as a teacher educator had taken different pathways. Early in her career, she had emphasized mainly what teachers should know: levels of Bloom's taxonomy, types of…

Author found that the verbal behavior of an experimental group was significantly more indirect than that of the control group, supporting the hypothesis that audio tapes are effective for observational learning of a specific teaching behavior. (Editor)

This review of research literature about training in the skills of teaching indicates that change in skills can be brought about through different training methods, with different training populations, and in different training settings. This analysis of the literature was designed to assess the comparative contribution of a set of selected…

A general introduction to the concept of microteaching and its development is presented, and the generally accepted format and the skills practiced for microteaching are described. Aspects of microteaching commonly perceived as favorable and unfavorable are addressed, and a review of current research is provided and followed by a discussion of the…

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…

The traditional model for student teaching is based on a one-to-one relationship between the student teacher and the supervising teacher. However, by providing interaction with only one individual, the possibility for varied practice and feedback is limited. A model is proposed in which five student teachers work with one supervising teacher. The…

An experiment to determine the suitability of microteaching (MT) to teacher training in Sweden has been conducted since 1970. This newsletter reviews the three phases of that experiment and discusses some of the preliminary results. The experiment has only been evaluated by questionnaire. However, the results showed that: the pupils and classroom…

A factorial design with 48 student teachers (40 were enrolled in the author's Social Studies Curriculum course at the University of California) was used to study the effect of a Social Studies curriculum course, self-confrontation on videotape, videotape-coding practice, and Guided Self-Analysis (GSA) upon the nature of teachers questions, teacher…