This paper presents the results of a study designed to determine whether preservice elementary teachers with a great deal of previous early field experience, but no previous microteaching experience, would benefit more from an additional science field experience in the local school systems or from an alternative science microteaching experience.…

Twenty papers originally presented at a conference organized by London University on "Efficiency in Teaching Methods in Higher Education" are presented. After an introduction by David Warren Piper, the following papers are included: "Old Prejudices and New Management Tools" (Gerald Fowler); "Efficiency in Higher…

Videotaped recordings of supervisor-teacher micro-teaching playback sessions were used to identify evaluative discourse. Fifteen student teachers discussed a 10-30 minute lesson they had just taught to college freshmen, with graduate student supervisors. Supervisors and student teachers evaluated lesson topics such as teacher questions, content,…

THAT MICRO-TEACHING CAN BE USED EFFECTIVELY FOR TEACHER TRAINING AND RETRAINING WAS INDICATED BY A 1966 NDEA INSTITUTE WHERE PARTICIPANTS VIEWED ON VIDEO-TAPE AND DISCUSSED THE WORK OF A TEACHER IN A SMALL DEMONSTRATION CLASS OF HIGH SCHOOL FRENCH. EACH MEMBER HIMSELF TAUGHT TWO 15-MINUTE CLASS SEGMENTS OF THE SAME CLASS, WHICH WAS ALSO…

MICROTEACHING AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY CONSISTS OF THE PRESENTATION OF A LESSON BY A STUDENT TEACHER TO A MICROCLASS OF THREE TO FIVE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. WHEN THESE STUDENTS ARE NOT AVAILABLE, THE MICROCLASS IS COMPOSED OF HIS PEERS FROM THE COLLEGE CLASS. THE TRAINEE'S INSTRUCTOR, OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS COLLEGE CLASS, AND THE MICROCLASS…

A study was conducted with social studies teacher trainees in a southern university to determine if videotaped microteaching produced changes in their self-concepts. The problem under investigation was whether or not student teachers would develop a positive self-image as a result of their videotaped microteaching experiences. Sixty subjects were…

Three nontraditional intervention strategies are examined as approaches for improving the teaching effectiveness of graduate teaching assistants (TA's) in speech communication. The approaches include the "standard-other model," which demonstrates how others display the desired behaviors; the "self-as-model," which takes advantage of…

The effect of the direct versus the indirect method of supervision and the influence of one versus three prior self evaluation experiences on the self evaluation skills of sixty-three preservice teachers was examined. Interaction between treatment and self concept was also investigated. Each subject taught four video taped microteaching lessons.…

An exploratory study investigated the effects of two organizational patterns of microsimulation experiences (concurrently with or sequentially to student teaching) on the verbal teaching behavior of student teachers trained in the Reciprocal Category System of Interaction Analysis (RCS) as compared to their counterparts who received no RCS…

Minicourse 1, a short microteaching program designed to change 12 specific classroom behaviors involved in conducting a discussion lesson, relies heavily on filmed illustrations by model teachers and provides feedback through carefully structured teacher self-evaluation of televised lesson replays. A study was designed (1) to estimate the degree…

In a self-confrontation experiment student teachers were put through an extensive test battery containing personality tests, cognitive tests, and attitude tests. An analysis is presented of the influence of personality on the student teachers' perception and evaluation during confrontation with their own video-recorded micro-lessons. Using a…

The Teacher Education Research Center (TERC) program has developed during the past year from a group of loosely coordinated and unrelated projects to a problem-oriented program under several different components. The general problem under consideration is teacher induction, meaning the entire period of time between graduation and the moment the…

Not all poor people live in cities, but as the problems of those who do are intensified by the urban press, the needs of the urban poor of all racial and cultural backgrounds deserve emphasis. The children of these poor are oriented to the physical and visual rather than to the aural. They are content-centered, problem-centered, externally…

This is the second in a series of three tests of selected micro-teaching and video recording techniques designed to facilitate the identification of alternate ways to increase the effectiveness of vocational teacher education. The tests were conducted to develop feedback techniques in a laboratory under simulated teacher education conditions. This…

In this research paper specific teaching tasks important in social studies instruction are described in terms of pre-service teachers' classroom verbal behavior which occurred in a teaching laboratory; and the stability of individual pre-service teachers' behavior while teaching two similar lessons involving a specific task are described and…