In today's diverse schools, meeting individual literacy needs of students is one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. Instructional scaffolding is a powerful tool that many literacy teachers use to meet the challenge. While the term denotes a wide array of strategies, most teachers use scaffolding in some form or another in their…

For twenty years, the author of this article has helped prepare teachers for middle and high school classrooms. As with most lengthy journeys, this author relates how her journey as a teacher educator had taken different pathways. Early in her career, she had emphasized mainly what teachers should know: levels of Bloom's taxonomy, types of…

This article presents seven teaching behaviors which have been organized into a sequential progression for utilization with undergraduate trainees prior to student teaching. (RC)

The effectiveness of microteaching as a method of training student teachers in human relations skills is assessed. (BRT)

This bibliography lists 151 manuscripts, dissertations and theses, journal articles, and books on videotaped microteaching prepared by American sources between 1964-1978 that have not been indexed in the ERIC data base. The documents are in chronological order and include sources. (Author/CJ)

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS CAN BE USED TO IMPROVE TEACHER EDUCATION. A MULTI-STATE TEACHER EDUCATION PROJECT PLANS AND DEVELOPS PROGRAMS FOR MICROTEACHING WITH THE HELP OF VIDEOTAPE RECORDERS (VTR). MICROTEACHING, THE ISOLATION OF SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF THE TEACHING TASK, ENABLES TRAINEES TO FOCUS ON AND ACQUIRE TECHNIQUES OF INSTRUCTION WITH THE…

Theoretical considerations suggest that the differential effectiveness of teaching models and associated feedback procedures stems from their distinctive cueing properties. This led to the development of three treatment conditions which may be labeled "rating" (rehearsal of key discriminations), "observation" vicarious reinforcement), and "direct…

This manual provides a set of tasks for use in the microteaching context of a Teaching Laboratory to be used in teaching pupils an approach to problem solving. The introduction describes the contents and functioning of the Teaching Laboratory and the way in which the manual should be used. Details of five lessons are then given. The first lesson…

Presented is an information package designed to answer questions regarding the use of microteaching and the Far West Laboratory's Minicourses. The package includes bibliographies concerning questioning teachniques, oral language development, tutoring, and the use of interaction analysis. Anslysis papers detail various minicourses and give a…

This paper elaborates on a list of procedures contained in an accompanying handout entitled "The 27 Steps in the Development Program." These 27 steps are subsumed under 12 categories: 1) research and information collecting, 2) planning, 3) develop preliminary form of product, 4) preliminary field testing, 5) main product revision, 6) main field…

This paper pulls together the knowledge and insights that have been accumulated in the development of Minicourses. It is expected that the guidelines will be revised and enlarged as new knowledge about this work is accumulated. The guidelines cover the following aspects of Minicourse development: initial planning, the introduction film, the…

Procedures for training undergraduates in basic teaching skills were developed over 7 semesters. The training involved six individual experimental programs of a semester's duration and a follow-up study of the students in the Spring of 1970 program. The training has been given to 438 elementary education majors. The purpose of the program was to…

This is a session-by-session lesson chart of component one of the Instructional Staff Development (ISD) program. The general purposes of this component are listed as follows: a) to provide participants with proper expectations concerning the purpose of the program, b) to promote a group feeling of familiarity among participants, c) to encourage…