This group of six papers deals with various aspects of the Far West Laboratory of Educational Research and Development project to develop minicourses, short inservice training courses using the microteaching technique and videotape recorder to teach specific teaching behavior patterns. Included are 1) "Overview of the Teacher Education Program,"…

To investigate ways of improving preservice trade and industrial teaching practice sessions, 48 participants in a 1-week teacher education workshop were randomly assigned to eight treatments consisting of combinations of two levels of three major variables: (1) receiving or not receiving video feedback, (2) teaching two 10-minute lessons or four…

A study compared instances of self-supervision with more traditional supervision of student teachers to determine the relationships between this variable and teacher attitudes and interaction behavior. Eighty-four secondary education student teachers were engaged in self-supervision, or were more traditionally supervised, or both. Self-supervising…

Statistical analysis of the videotape recorder as a feedback device used to train teacher interns produced four conclusions: that videotape feedback to teacher interns did not produce behavioral changes significantly different from those teacher interns who did not receive feedback; that the addition of inputs such as critique and type scripts did…

A study examined the effects of verbal and perceptual dimensions of individual differences in relation to the efficacy of two different kinds of modeling procedures in the acquisition of a teaching skill (analytic questioning). Aptitude tests for cognitive factors plus specially developed audiovisual tests were administered to 121 intern teachers…

Video tapes of student teachers micro-teaching in a high school biology class were analyzed. Attention was focussed on students' interpretations of data and the teacher's responses to these interpretations. Examples are given of student explanations which teachers find unsatisfactory but which are valid alternatives based on the data available to…

Minicourse 4 on interaction analysis, an autoinstructional package based on the use of microteaching and the videotape recorder, was designed (1) to train teachers to categorize their own classroom behavior, using Flanders' system, to an 80 percent correct criterion level; (2) to increase frequency in classroom discussions of category 2, 3, and 4…

The lack of substance in many methods courses stems from the lack of a systematic procedure for identifying specific teaching behaviors. Methods courses in general fail to differentiate between learning and teaching. This paper presents a paradigm which can be used for the systematic identification of effective teacher behavior. The three axes of…

This document is a collection of summaries of recently published projects prepared for participants at the British symposium on research and reform in teacher education. The symposium was one of a series initiated by the Council of Europe's Educational Research Committee. The document is divided into three parts: Teachers (which includes abstracts…

This annotated bibliography contains 115 citations ranging in date from 1957 to 1971. References are divided into five sections: 1) teacher certification and selection; 2) teacher education; 3) modeling, feedback and audiovisual media techniques; 4) observation, measurement, and evaluation; and 5) research on teacher characteristics. When…

Seventy-four preservice teachers in home economics and social studies were videotaped during a 10-minute microteaching session prior to and after training. A training program in nonverbal behaviors related to encouraging classroom interaction was developed. Three training approaches to this program were constructed: programatic videotape,…

This report covers the evaluation of preliminary field testing of a 1-year experimental training program designed to reach a larger number of Head Start teachers and teacher aides at a lower cost but provide an inservice program that was at least as good as an 8-week college program. The program began with a 4-day workshop for 60 teachers and…

The purpose of this conference was to prepare key people in the field of education to function as inservice education leaders in their respective settings. It called for participants to learn what the MOREL inservice education program is and what it hopes to accomplish, to identify the role and functions of the inservice education leader, and to…

This study found that microteaching experience significantly improved subsequent performance of student teachers on five of six specific factors derived from the Teacher Performance Evaluation Scale (TPES). Subjects in the study were 37 secondary education majors who were randomly assigned to experimental or control groups. Students in the…

This manual introduces teaching strategies into teacher education through microteaching. The manual aided in the experimentation of accepted teaching behaviors by practicing them in classroom situations. The four basic divisions in the manual are microteaching concerns, process concerns, affective concerns, and personal concerns. The first section…