Effectiveness of Microteaching in Teacher Education

1. Effectiveness of
Microteaching in Teacher
Education
Presented By: Hassan Arslan Khalid
M.Phil. STED
Allama Iqbal Open University,
Islamabad

2. Objectives
O What is microteaching?
O Purpose and nature of microteaching
O What is microteaching cycle?
O Phases of microteaching
O Effectiveness of microteaching in teacher
education
O Limitations of microteaching
O To conclude microteaching

3. Microteaching
O A method of training teachers where
explicit use of principles of feedback is
used
(Kieviet, 1972)
O Teaching of a small unit of content to the
small group of student teachers (6-10) in
a small amount of time (5-10 min.)
O To train inexperienced student teacher for
acquiring teaching skills
O To improve the skill of experience
teachers

4. Purpose and nature of
microteaching
O Provide an opportunity for real classroom
teaching
O Simplify the complexity of classroom
teaching by…….???
O Promote the mastery of teaching skills,
techniques, methods and syllabus
interpretations
O Developing the skill of student teachers in
trimming the content into teachable units

5. Classroom setting

6. Microteaching Cycle
Microteaching
Micro
Lesson
Plan
Teach
Feedbac
k
Session
Re-plan
Re-
teach
Re-
feedbac
k

7. Phases of microteaching
O Three main phases;
O Acquisition phase
O Skill acquisition phase
O Transfer phase
(Ajibola, 2013)

9. Effectiveness of Microteaching
in Teacher Education
O Positively affects the perception of
competence of teacher trainer
O To improve pre-service teachers’ critical
thinking dispositions (Zeki Arsal, 2015)
O Enables teacher trainers to master those
skills which are required for their teaching
specially time management, classroom
management, pedagogy etc. (Farkhanda,
R.C. et al, 2013)

10. Contd…
O LCMT had a progress in teacher candidates’
teaching behaviors on subject area, planning,
teaching process, classroom management,
communication, and evaluation.
(Abdurrahman, 2010)
O A research revealed that after mastering the
teaching skills one can be able to integrate
them (Slabert, 2013)
O Teachers identify, select and practice teaching
skills in conducive and supportive
environment (Afolabi, 2010)

11. Contd…
O Prepares students for teaching practices
and provide them with teaching situations
they face during classrooms
O Enables understanding of behaviors
important in classroom teaching
O Provides expert supervision and
constructive feedback
O So, promotes the professional
development of teacher trainee

12. Limitations of Microteaching
O Lack of resources
O Videotaping equipment is expensive
O Time consuming
O Student learning is ignored
O Creation of artificial environment
(Kumar, 2008)
O Lack of peers perception

13. Conclusion
O Microteaching involves the presentation of
micro lesson
O Small group of peers for short time
O Feedback given by peers role playing as
students
O Participants learn about strengths and
weakness in themselves as teachers
O Plan the strategies for improvement in
performance

14. Remember!!!
Even the best teacher can
learn a great deal from his
or her students

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