Explains how to use microteaching in an effective way to have students in methods classes plan, teach, and evaluate a lesson presented to a small group of their peers. (PR)

Microteaching Lesson Study [MLS] is a cooperative learning experience that we felt could challenge our prospective teachers thinking about teaching and support their connection of theory and practice during an initial course on learning to teach mathematics. We studied seventy-four prospective teachers' perspectives on MLS over four sections of…

This article presents a qualitative case study that explored preservice teachers' perceptions about their own learning within the culture of a branch-campus, cohort-model teacher preparation program and through their first year of teaching. This study investigated how a cohort of twelve preservice teachers--many of whom were nontraditional-aged…

Describes an interdisciplinary team-teaching project that requires minicourses during free periods. (LS)

Utilizes the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) "invitations to inquiry" in teacher training in analyzing a lesson's objectives and in microteaching. (LS)

A discussion of role-playing as a teaching technique in pre-service language teacher education suggests procedures for acquainting teacher trainees with role-playing and preparing them to write their own role-plays. The method aims to overcome trainee resistance to group work. Exposure to role-playing takes three forms: (1) trainees view a film…

Procedures are described which were used in a short microteaching period in a Postgraduate Certificate in Education Program in the United Kingdom. In this program, a tutor works with groups of 15 students who have already had at least 2 years of teaching experience. The program of 7 days is divided as follows: (1) all 15 students teach one lesson,…

The minicourse and microteaching instructional procedures were perceived as being effective in teaching the concepts identified in the model. (Author)

An annotated review of recent ERIC-indexed documents on the topic. (CH)

If prospective teachers are expected to transfer their classroom theory to school situations, identical or highly similar situations should be provided to show the learner the relationship between the theoretical elements presented in college lectures and the actual teaching behaviors to which they apply. While field experience in an authentic…

This article outlines the background and the basic components of microteaching and describes it as a means of providing foreign language teaching trainees with an experience that will ease the transition from the laboratory situation to the actual teaching setting. Criticism of the method is included. (CLK)

SUMMARIES ARE GIVEN OF CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS MADE BY INSTRUCTIONAL RESEARCHERS INVOLVED IN CURRENT PROJECTS. TITLES INCLUDE (1) COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION--A TOOL FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH, (2) INSTRUCTION FOR EDUCATIONALLY AND CULTURALLY DEPRIVED ADOLESCENTS, (3) MICROTEACHING AS A TEACHING METHODOLOGY, (4) INDIVIDUALLY PRESCRIBED…

MICROTEACHING IS THE CREATION OF A MINIATURE TEACHING SITUATION UNDER EASILY CONTROLLED CONDITIONS, WITH IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK FOR THE STUDENT TEACHER. ONE HUNDRED FORTY STUDENTS IN SIX METHODS COURSES EACH TEACH A SELF-CONTAINED 4- TO 6-MINUTE LESSON ON A SINGLE, SPECIFIC CONCEPT TO A "CLASS" OF THREE TO FIVE LOCAL STUDENTS AT THE…