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State Univ. of New York, Fredonia. Coll. at Fredonia. Teacher Education Research Center. – 1972
Minicourse, "Effective Teaching," a program of skills development, was designed to aid inservice training of elementary teachers. Fifty-two teachers in 13 widely distributed New York schools participated in the program on a voluntary basis. Thirteen Minicourse sessions were completed according to a timetable. Each instructional sequence required 1…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Microteaching, Protocol Materials

Allen, W. Clayton – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1975
A microteaching teacher-preparation strategy and the traditional instructional approach were compared. The complexities of a manipulative demonstration were broken down into identifiable and teachable skills. The greater effectiveness of the microteaching strategy was attributed in part to the reduced number of skills the student concentrated on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demonstrations (Educational), Microteaching, Psychomotor Skills
Metcalf, Kim K. – 1991
The purpose of this study was to determine whether preservice teachers can be trained to be more clear during instruction and whether a causal relationship exists between teacher clarity and student achievement. A review of literature in teacher education, business, and industrial training revealed that no intact, empirically verified training…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Microteaching
Nyquist, Jody L.; Staton-Spicer, Ann Q. – 1979
Three nontraditional intervention strategies are examined as approaches for improving the teaching effectiveness of graduate teaching assistants (TA's) in speech communication. The approaches include the "standard-other model," which demonstrates how others display the desired behaviors; the "self-as-model," which takes advantage of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Cutler, Beverly R.; And Others – 1989
Brigham Young University (Utah) is developing a program to improve reflective thinking skills in preservice students. The beginning professional course includes the following reflective teaching components: (1) instruction on the theory and process of reflection; (2) participation in selected microteaching episodes; (3) reflecting on the classroom…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Literature Reviews
McKnight, Philip C. – 1979
Microteaching and the technical skills approach to teacher training began at Stanford University in 1963 as part of a preservice training program. The main skills that emerged from the program and were focused on from 1963-68 were response repertoire, creating student involvement, questioning skills, increasing student participation, and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, History, Microteaching, Questioning Techniques