Micro-Teaching Skills

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 Teaching
Skills
A set of interrelated
behaviours grouped together
is called as Teaching skill

or
Teaching Skill is defined as
interrelated teachers
behaviour

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Characteristics of
Teaching skills
 Identifiable
Observable
Trainable
Measurable

Three main components of

Teaching skills
 Perception
Cognition
Action
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 What is Micro
teaching

The process which helps to

learn to teach is called
Microteaching

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Microteaching
Dr. Allen and his group evolved concept of
Microteaching in 1963 in Stanford University,
America.
In India, Department of Teacher Education in
NCERT designed a project on Micro teaching along
with University of Baroda in 1975.

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 What is Microteaching?
•Micro teaching is not a teaching but it is a process of
learning to teach, in which
•Small teacher (Student –Teacher) teaches
•small unit of content to the
•small group of students (6-10 number) in a
•small amount of time (5-10 min.) in a
•Simulated condition( Artificial Classroom)
Therefore it is a strategy to train inexperience
student-teachers for acquiring teaching skills.

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 Microteaching
“Microteaching is a scaled down
teaching encounter in class, size &
time.”

[Link] (1966) “Microteaching

is defined as a system of
controlled practice, that makes it
possible to concentrate on
specified teaching behavior and to
practice teaching under controlled
conditions.”

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 Allen and Ryan (1969:1) stated:
Microteaching is "a training concept that can be
applied at various pre-service and in-service
stages in the professional development of
teachers”.

Modern definition by Cruickshank and

Metcalf (1993:87) Microteaching is a “Scaled-
down teaching encounter in which pre-service
teachers demonstrate their ability to perform one
of several desirable teacher abilities to a group of
3-5 peers during a short time period.“

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 Steps of microteaching

Step I: Orientation about the Particular skill

to be practiced is explained to the Student
teacher in terms of the purpose & components
of the skill with suitable examples.

Step II : Demonstration of the Skill:

The Teacher educator gives the
demonstration of the skill in simulated
conditions to the student teachers

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 Step III :Planning Micro lesson by Student
teacher:
The Student teacher plans a Micro lesson
plan on the basis of the demonstrated skill for
his/her practice

Step IV : Teaching by St- tr in a Simulated

Condition
The Student teacher teaches the lesson to a
small group of pupils. His / Her lesson is
supervised by supervisor and peers.

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Step V : Feedback by the Supervisor:
On the basis of the observation of a lesson, the
supervisor gives feedback to the Student teacher.
By this he reinforces the instances of effective use
of the skill and draws attention to the points
where he needs to do better.

Step VI : Replan by the Ss- T to do re-teach

In the light of the feedback given by the
supervisor, the Student- Teacher re-plans the
lesson plan in order to learn the components in
more effective manner in the second trial.

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 Step VII : Re-teach
The revised lesson is practiced by a
student teacher in the simulated conditions

Step VIII : Re feedback

The supervisor observes the re-teach
lesson and gives re-feedback to the Student
teacher with convincing arguments &
reasons .
Step IX : The “ teach - Re-teach” cycle may
be repeated several times till adequate
mastery level is achieved.

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Present Teacher Expected Teacher

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Microteaching Cycle

Step- I : Micro Lesson Plan (may take 2 hrs/ a

day)
Step-II : Teach 6Min.
Step-III : Feedback Session 6 Min.
Step-IV : Re-plan 12 Min.
Step-V : Re-teach 6 Min.
Step-VI : Re-feedback 6 Min.
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Total 36 Min. (Appr.)
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Microteaching Setting
1. Time
a. Teach 6 Minutes
b. Feedback 6 Minutes
c. Re-Plan 12 Minutes
d. Re-Teach 6 Minutes
e. Re-Feedback 6 Minutes
36 Minutes
2. No. of student teachers in a 6-10
group
[Link] by Teacher Educator 6 minutes
4. Feedback by the peer supervisor(s)

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Micro Teaching
Cycle
1. PLAN 2. TEACH

6. RE-FEEDBACK 3. FEEDBACK

5. RE-TEACH 4. RE-PLAN

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 General Teaching Skills-
Allen & Ryan
1. Stimulus 8. Higher order
Variation questions
2. Induction
9. Divergent questions
3. Closure
[Link]
attending behavior
4. Silence and non-
[Link] and use
verbal cues
of examples
5. Reinforcement of
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student
[Link] repetition
participation
[Link] of
6. Fluency in asking
Communication
questions
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 Teaching Skills - by
[Link]
Writing
instructional 8. Silence and
objectives non-verbal
2. Introducing a cues.
lesson 9. Reinforcement
3. Fluency in [Link]
questioning pupil
4. Probing participation
questions [Link] black-
5. Explaining board
6. Illustrating [Link]
with examples closure
7. Stimulus [Link]
Variation attending 18
 Major Skills of
Microteaching practiced
in Teacher Training
Institutions
 Skill of Introducing a Lesson
 Skill of Explaining
 Skill of Stimulus Variation
 Skill of Fluency in Questioning
 Skill of Illustration with Examples
 Skill of Black Board Writing
 Skill of Reinforcement
 Skill of achieving closure

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TEACHING SKILLS
 PLANNING STAGE  Writing instructional
objectives
 Organizing the content
 INTRODUCTORY
 Introducing the lesson
STAGE
 PRESENTATION  Presentation skills
STAGE -Citing Examples
-Explaining
-Experimentation
-blackboard using
 Questioning skills
 Aid using skills
 Management skills
 CLOSING STAGE  Achieving closure
 Giving assignments
 Evaluating the pupil’s progress
 Diagnosing pupil learning
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Characteristics of Microteaching
1) Duration of teaching as well as number of
students are less.
2) Content is divided into smaller units.
3) Only one teaching skill is considered at a
time.
4) Provision of immediate feedback.
5) In micro teaching cycle, there is facility of re-
planning, re-teaching and re-evaluation.
6) It puts the teacher under the microscope
7) All the faults of the teacher are observed.
8) The problem of discipline can also be
controlled.
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 Feedback in Micro teaching
• Helpful information or criticism that is given to
someone to say what can be done to improve a
performance, product etc.
• The success of micro teaching depends on
feedback.
• It is provided in various forms in case of micro
teaching i e by the supervisor, video-tape, films,
projectors -which are various sources of feedback.

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 Points to keep in mind
Content Selection
Having theoretical clarity of each
skill, which need to be practiced
Complete concentration on specific
skill components
Zeal and interest to mastery the
components
More and more practice before the
actual presentation of the lesson
Considering feedback and criticism
from peer members and supervisor is
for improvement
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 Advantages of Microteaching

1. It focuses on sharpening and developing specific teaching

skills and eliminating errors.
2. It enables understanding of behaviours important in
class-room teaching.
3. It increases the confidence of the Student teacher.
4. It is a vehicle of continuous training for both beginners
and for senior teachers.
5. It provides experts supervision and constructive feedback.
6 . Participants learn about their strengths & weakness in
themselves as teachers and Plan strategies for
improvement in performance.

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Remember !!!
‘Even the best teacher can learn
a great deal from his/ her
students’

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Thank You
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