Article summarises preliminary observations resulting from the introduction of microteaching techniques into a basic course in audiovisual aids at Didsbury College of Education. (Author)

Evaluates a microtraining approach for training situationally nonassertive clients in assertive expression. Procedure included individualized training situations and a test of generalization. Microtraining, regardless of feedback type, increased self-rated and objectively rated assertiveness, compared to an insight-oriented counseling control.…

Reprint from "Research and Development: Advances in Education, a publication of the U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research.

TWO POINTS OF VIEW ON WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER ARE EVALUATED. THAT KNOWLEDGE OF ONE'S SUBJECT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER WAS QUESTIONED BY NEIDT'S STUDY OF CHANGES IN ATTITUDES DURING LEARNING. CONTINUOUS INTERACTION BETWEEN THE LEARNER'S ATTITUDES AND ACHIEVEMENTS (PROGRESSIVE DISENCHANTMENT BECAME MORE PRONOUNCED AS LEARNING…

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine on a preliminary basis whether or not change in teaching behavior would occur as a result of selected kinds of field experiences in the pre-service education of teachers for inner city schools. The hypothesis tested was that students who have specific exposures in agencies serving inner city residents…

The study was designed to find out what kinds of teacher training products were considered most useful by teachers. Twenty-one teachers were asked to evaluate 125 teacher training products divided into various sets by objectives and complexity of training mode and skills required. There was fairly strong agreement on what products were good, with…

This is a report of one of the Center for Educational Research and Innovation's (CERI) pilot studies in international transfer. The report states that the international transfer of learning systems involves a process whereby a learning system, a curriculum project, or an educational practice is introduced and implemented in a cultural and…

The necessity for program modification to meet existing local needs and the current thrust toward competency-based instruction led to this curriculum development project. The intent of the project was to determine the feasibility of incorporating educational innovations within the Business Education Student Teaching Program in order to begin to…

The prime objective of this study was to collect evaluations on instruction performed by student teachers and to compare the evaluations done by their peers with those done by their students. Another objective of this study was to consider changes in the evaluations when the first performance of student teachers was compared with their second…

In performance- or competency-based teacher education, the training objectives are behavior skills a teacher may use to produce or enhance learning. One technique used to improve skill development is modeling. The trainee is shown either a live, taped, or written model and then attempts to emulate the example. The student receives immediate…

This study was designed to observe the effect of two basic variations of a film mediated model on teacher trainees' acquiring the technique of asking questions that require thought before being answered; it attempted to discover whether the subjects could best learn this technique by watching it illustrated by a filmed model, or by engaging in…

This paper holds that the "supervisory" function should be basically one of teaching teachers rather than evaluation of teaching styles, with the consultant on teaching guiding a teacher in the systematic analysis and modification of his teaching performance through a systematic decisionmaking process. In the first half of this paper supervisory…

Feedback by teacher comment, by television playback, and by self-analysis, singly, or together, reduced anxiety in subsequent performance as measured by nonfluencies in speech. Nonfluencies were counted in eight categories: the sounds, "ah,""um," or "uh;" correction; sentence incompletion; repetition; stutter; intruding incoherent sound; tongue…

One Teaching Laboratory (TL) task, a component concerned with several behaviors related to classroom questioning, was developed and tested. Subjects were 86 teacher candidates enrolled in four sections of an introductory teaching course. Two experienced instructors each taught two sections, one section utilizing the TL component and the other not.…