A course was developed to provide foreign student teaching assistants (TAs) with improved classroom presentational skills. Class size was kept small and classes were offered once each week for two hours to give students sufficient opportunities to practice speaking. Relying heavily on student oral presentations, the teachers assigned progressively…

Reports are made of a meeting of ten Asian representatives to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania, in Bangkok in the fall of 1978. It was the responsibility of this group to explore the following topics: (1) To study and analyze the experiences of…

This report describes the implementation of a large-scale program at Brigham Young University to provide for at least one microteaching experience for each of 730 students enrolled in a beginning education course. A definition of microteaching (the creation of a miniature teaching situation under controlled conditions) and the elements which make…

This faculty project development had three main objectives: (1) to enable faculty to observe and evaluate their own behavior in the classroom; (2) to provide each faculty member with feedback from peers in a non-evaluative setting; and (3) to allow faculty to observe other teachers in action, to learn alternative teaching styles and to discuss…

A long-term Leverhulme Research Project was established at Stirling University in 1970 to investigate the potential of microteaching as a major ingredient in the preparation of graduate high school teachers in Scotland. Members of the research team developed systematic observation schedules for each of the skills, in order to sharpen the focus of…

The Marin County (California) Regional Occupational Program (Marin ROP) was charged with increasing the vocational education opportunities for youth and adults so that they may acquire occupational skills. While the Marin ROP was jointly sponsored by three secondary school districts and a two-campus community college, the ROP was administered by…

Systematic and reliable feedback are critical elements of microteaching. One system whereby pre-service and in-service teachers may obtain systematic and reliable feedback during microteaching is called the Social Science Observation Record (SSOR). This monograph is intended to meet three purposes: (1) To explain the SSOR as a verbal system for…

The Social Science Observation Record (SSOR) is a systematic observation system designed to abstract and describe class discussion, specifically those discussions directed toward value clarification as an aspect of subject-matter instruction. The objective and yet diverse nature o category observation systems is described and an explanation is…

Significant desired changes occurred in the conference behavior of a group of supervisor-trainees who participated in a microteaching practicum. There was also a significant shift in the way the group evaluated teaching skills; at the end of the practicum their ratings more closely approximated those assigned by a group of experienced supervisors.…

To determine whether the use of 8mm sound film recordings facilitated the process of self-inquiry and increased self-perception, this study compared results of two sections of a methods course in the teaching of secondary school English in which an experimental section developed and analyzed 5-minute sound film recordings. Each experimental…

This 414-item bibliography contains citations of published and unpublished documents and journal articles processed by the Clearinghouse between July 1968 and June 1970 related to the "means and methods by which pre- and in-service school personnel can secure structured practice in developing skills and insights." Publication dates of the…

A project designed to demonstrate the effect of an adaptation of the microteaching technique on the instructional behavior of rural school teachers was conducted in three rural school systems in Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. Fifty-one teachers and 1,114 pupils participated. Teachers were pre-rated by a 5-member rating team utilizing the…

This paper examines the relationships between both low- and high-inference teaching process variables and success in specific teaching tasks performed in a laboratory setting. Two minor objectives are also included: teacher characteristics are related to success in the teaching tasks, and the relationships between low- and high-inference teaching…

A total of 60 students in teacher training enrolled in a Principles of Teaching Methods course participated in this study. The course consisted of four-hour weekly sessions, in which the students attended two-hour lecture sessions and taught eight to ten micro-lessons. In the microteaching laboratory, the student-teachers were arranged into groups…

This is the third in a series of three tests of selected micro-teaching and video recording feedback techniques in laboratory settings designed to stimulate vocational teacher education programs. A comparison was made of the relative effectiveness of: (1) face-to-face supervision with video feedback, (2) remote supervision via video feedback which…