Discusses the effectiveness and the history of a simplified teaching practice, microteaching, which is carried out under controlled conditions using sound and vision feedback to modify operant teacher behavior. (Author/RK)

This program was developed as a laboratory test of new teacher-preparation concepts, with special emphasis on urban problems. An experimental group of 37 elementary and secondary school education majors took part, with two randomly selected control groups and 42 teachers and administrators in seven elementary and high schools in a central Chicago…

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,…