CHARACTERISTICS AND STEPS OF MICRO TEACHING. SLIDE EXPLAINS THE CHARACTERISTIC OF MICRO TEACHING

2.  It is highly individualized training device and
experiment in the field of teacher education
 The trainee can concentrate on practicing a
specific, well defined skill.
 It is skill training technique and not a
teaching technique.
 It is a scale down technique. Scaling down
the class size to 5-10 students, duration to 5
to 10 minutes, size of the topic.
 Provide immediate feedback- feedback by
pupil teachers, video recording, supervisor
etc.

3.  It is a cyclic process to reflect upon your
practice skill and re-practice it until
mastered.
 Less administrative problems arise as
teaching sessions are organized with peers.
 Micro teaching provides an opportunity to
under take research studies with better
control over conditions and situations.
 Micro teaching can be used as an integral
part of teacher training in India as
sophisticated gadgetry is not a must.

6.  It is the first step in micro- teaching
practice. This involves,
 selection of the skill to be practiced,
 awareness of components of the skill,
 selection of a suitable concept,
 and writing of micro lesson with specific
objectives.

7.  The following setting is suggested for the
micro teaching technique.
 Time: 6 minutes
 Students: peer group- 5 to 10
 Supervisors: 1or 2
 If possible, use of CCTV facility could be
made to enable the teacher trainee to get a
first hand look at his weaknesses.

8.  This is a vital aspect of the micro teaching
cycle.
 To be effective it must be clearly related to
the model of the teaching skill used.
 Focus the feedback on to specific
behaviors and can be used for the analysis
session or be just given to the teacher
trainee with a written comment or rating of
his/her skill performance.

9.  Teacher trainee re-plan the lesson in order to
practice the small skill effectively in the
light of the discussion and suggestion.
 Keeping in mind the feedback received
writing another micro lesson plan or editing
the existing one.

10.  The teacher trainee re teaches,
incorporating the suggested changes with the
same students or another group of 5
students.
 Supervisor checks to see whether there is
any improvement in skill attainment.
 The teaching is now followed by discussion of
suggestions and encouragement to the
teaching performance.

11.  The supervisor assesses the lesson again
pointing out the improvements and lapses.
 The same process repeated until master in
particular skill.