This document discusses the skill of stimulus variation in microteaching. Stimulus variation refers to changing teaching behaviors and stimuli to sustain student attention and understanding. It is important for enhancing active involvement, understanding, liveliness, grabbing attention, minimizing boredom, and motivating students. Effective stimulus variation includes changing position, gestures, speech patterns, focusing, and switching between oral and visual presentation. Topics that benefit from stimulus variation include poems, dialogues, stories, and grammar lessons. Teachers should purposefully vary questions, facilitate discussions, demonstrate physically, use gestures while talking, and interact with students. They should avoid unnecessary movements, standing in one place too long, and playing with teaching materials.

1. Skill of Stimulus Variation
MICRO TEACHING SKILL
Dr Rajnikant Dodiya
Asst. Professor, HMPIETR

2. What is Stimulus?
An action or condition that accelerates or
rouses to physiological or psychological
action, activity or responses.
Encouraging, triggering, sparking or
provoking

3. Variation
 Changing such stimuli or action to explain
something in live and cheerful way.
 It is to avoid boredom from the teaching.

4. Stimulus Variation
 Stimulus Variation means certain behaviours
used by the teacher in order to sustain and
secure students’ attention in class

5. Its Importance / Need
 To enhance active involvement of students in classroom
 To enhance understanding on students’ side
 To enhance liveliness in classroom teaching
 To grab the attention of students
 To minimize boredom in class
 To make students understand the topic effectively
 To Motivate students to learn

6. Important Things
 Movement, changing the position
 Gesture, changing the non-verbal signals
 Changing speech pattern and interaction style
 Focusing, pausing
 Oral to Visual and Visual to Oral

7. Topics for Stimulus Variation Skill
 Poems
 Dialogue based Lessons
 Story based Lessons
 Grammar – Adjective, nouns, etc.

8. Do’s
 Purposeful questions
 Dialogues in large and small
groups
 Assistance with question,
clarifications
 Physical demonstration, model
 Talking aloud with gestures
 interaction
Don’ts
 Unnecessary movements
 Seating on table
 Standing on same place for a
long time
 Black board work
 Playing with chalks