This innovative, individualized program at Madonna College is based on a systems approach to learning. The primary objective of this program is providing the students with specific competency goals and helping them to acquire these goals. The most important component of the program is a selected list of critical competencies based upon a model of…

The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of microteaching as an alternative to the traditional observation-discussion method of supervising student teachers. A sample of eight pre-service science teachers was randomly assigned, half to one condition and half to the other. Approximately six hours of verbal interaction data…

To determine whether preservice teachers would demonstrate a significant change in level of teacher enthusiasm after participating in a training intervention on teacher enthusiasm, and whether these same preservice teachers could maintain the increased level of teacher enthusiasm three weeks after termination of training, twenty preservice…

Discusses weaknesses in the present training curriculum for foreign language teachers in Germany. Discusses in some detail "interaction analysis" and "microteaching." Concludes with suggestions as to how research findings can be introduced into teacher-training seminars. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Teacher education programs must provide experiences that promote learner growth and achievement. A study involving 28 physical education majors examined the use of microteaching as a means of affecting feedback behaviors of preservice teachers. Results are discussed. (DF)

Micro-peer teaching is an important step in preservice teacher education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A three-lesson sequence used in a secondary methods course for physical education teachers is outlined. (PP)

Research Reviews present the current thought in microteaching with implications for teacher education programs. (SN)

Discussion of micro-teaching, a scaled down teaching exercise for teacher trainees developed at Stanford University; a brief lesson consisting of one particular teaching skill and presenting one particular concept in the trainee's subject matter field is taught, followed by immediate supervisory and pupil feedback on the performance. (FWB)

A report by the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; ERIC Abstracts are included for documents cited. (Author)

Questionnaires were sent to 21 special education teachers to assess their opinions on microteaching (a scaled down teaching situation in which the student teacher teaches a small group for a short period of time) over 3 years after the teachers had undergone microteaching.

Discusses whether the knowledge gained by a successful transfer of media-based materials for teacher training between two developed countries could be applied to a transfer of innovative learning materials from a developed country to a developing country. The advantages of such a transfer are assessed. Ten references are cited. (Author/CHC)

Most teacher preparation classes are designed around the microteaching concept and focus on the "three T's": the teaching, talking, and terminating cycle. For an improvement in teaching skills, it is important for more than one teach/reteach cycle to be used. (JN)

Follows on an earlier paper on microteaching for a preservice course in TEFL by outlining procedures and rationale for microteaching in an in-service TEFL course. Presents exploratory microteaching as an appropriate model for in-service teacher training in TEFL where the teacher trainer emphasizes methodological categories rather than teacher…

Highlights the components of the Gannett Teaching Fellowship Program, a summer workshop designed to improve journalism teacher effectiveness. Notes the particular benefits of using videotape materials, slide presentations, and the PLATO computer learning system in journalism education. (RL)