Microteaching, and its advantages

1. Microteaching
Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Kataria

2. • What is microteaching?
• Microteaching cycle
• Characteristics
• Advantages
• Disadvantages

3. • Dr. Allen and his group evolved microteaching
in 1963 at Stanford university

4. Definition
• “Micro-teaching is a teacher training and
faculty development technique whereby the
teacher reviews a recording of a teaching
session, in order to get constructive feedback
from peers and/or students about what has
worked and what improvements can be made
to their teaching technique." (Allen)

5. • Teaching of a small unit of content to a small
group of students in a small amount of time.
• To train students/ teachers for acquiring
teaching skills.
• To improve the skills of an experienced
teacher.

6. Microteaching Cycle
1.Plan
2.Teach
3.Feedback
4.Re-plan
5.Re- Teach
6.Re- Feed
back

7. Characteristics
• Set Induction: developing rapport between
students and teacher.
• Stimulus variation: to maintain the attention
of students.
• Fluency in questioning: using
comprehension, application, analysis and
synthesis techniques.

8. Contd…
• Recognizing attending behaviour: observing students
verbal and non verbal response to learning.
• Lecturing : Simple, clear, audible, organised and
confident.
• Nor verbal language: Smile, nodding etc.
• Question skills: Asking questions for further
clarification.

9. Contd..
• Re-enforcing learning: praising students for
correct response.
• Illustrating with use of examples
• Closure:That help learner to relate new
knowledge with the old one.

10. Advantages
• Focus on developing specific skills and
eliminating errors.
• It enables understanding of behaviour
important in class room.
• Provide an opportunity of expert supervision
and feedback.

11. Disadvantages
• Reduces the creativity of teacher.
• Time consuming.
• Can not be used in all teaching methods.

12. Thanks