Prospective secondary mathematics teachers lack images of "reformed" teaching that engage students in experimenting, analyzing, conjecturing, justifying, and making connections. The development and investigation of experiences fostering reform-oriented teaching are needed. This study investigated microteaching lesson study (MLS), an experience…

Teachers possess several strategies to fine-tune their purposive interactions to children's needs. Our study investigates which strategies teachers use in their goal oriented interactions with pupils, whether differentiation is perceptible in the way they interact with children whom they define as "children at risk" as compared to the…

Four short lessons on Boolean Algebra were recorded on video tape. A week later the participating students were shown the tapes and asked to comment. Responses to the interviewer were recorded, transcribed, and interpreted. (SD)

This paper presents an innovative approach to finding an appropriate setting for preservice teachers to practice teaching methods and skills. Microteaching to peers is most common in teacher preparation, but it has obvious flaws in gaining realistic responses to questions and genuine discussion of topics presented. Teaching to actual students is…

A suggested approach to teaching instructional skills to future teachers of English as a second language incorporates microteaching techniques. These techniques include the practice teaching of limited and coherent groups of skills, one group at a time, scaled-down practice teaching situations, maximum relevant feedback to each trainee, and the…

In a microsupervision workshop experiment designed to investigate group differences in acquiring an indirect style of supervisory conference behavior, 18 elementary school inservice teachers were randomly assigned to a video-modeling, written-modeling and performance-feedback treatment or non-treatment. Criterion performances were the frequency…

This study sought to determine how video-taping and micro-teaching as a strategy for training student teachers affects the conduct of an English lesson prepared for bilingual students. An extensive review of the literature presents research findings on general concerns in teacher training, video-taping and micro-teaching as a strategy of teacher…

The use of television, videotape and film in microteaching is discussed. These and other developments in modern technology can be most useful in teacher education if combined with new integrated training systems. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Methods are suggested that can be used to varying degrees by the teacher for a self-evaluation, which is independent of any other procedures that might be used by a school system. Three sources of information can be used as the basis for self-evaluation: (1) scaled instruments, questionnaires, and narrative reports; (2) videotapes; and (3) data on…

The basic components of National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Institutes and Experienced Teacher Fellowship Programs in Reading are discussed; their contributions to the teaching of reading are evaluated. Their curriculums center around core reading courses, substantive content, and supervised experiences with children. Working with the programs…

This study determined the effects of the opportunity to acquire a questioning strategy related to content-oriented values clarification inquiry and investigated whether teachers given the same objective of incorporating values clarification into their on-going content-related lessons could do so without receiving training in an appropriate…

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…

Competency-based teacher education (CBTE) cannot be defended unless a systematic large-scale research effort is directed to discovering the linkage between patterns of teacher behavior and student change. A more immediate need, however, is the development of techniques that (a) permit assessment of skills trainees possess, and (b) provide training…

Articles is this issue represent the substantive content of a series of 25 workshops sponsored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). The four major articles discuss innovative models based on four approaches for improving teacher performance: (1) "Interaction Analysis" by Edmund J. Amidon, San Francisco State…