A Brief Study of the Micro - Teaching

2. MICRO - TEACHING

3. INTRODUCTION
Micro-teaching is a training procedure for
teacher preparation aimed at simplifying in the
complexities of the regular teaching process. It is a scaled
down sample of teaching in which a teacher teaches a
small unit to a small group of 5 to 10 pupils for a small
period of 5 to 10 minutes. Micro-teaching is a new design
for teacher training, which provides trainees with feedback
about their performance immediately after completion of a
micro lesson.

4. DEFINITION
Micro-teaching is defined as “a scaled down
teaching encounter in a class size and class time”
(Allen). It is also defined as “a teacher training
procedure which reduce the teaching situation to
simpler and more controlled encounter achieved by
limiting the practice teaching to a specific skill and
reducing teaching time and class size”.

5. OBJECTIVES
• To enable teacher trainees to learn and assimilate
new teaching skills under controlled conditions.
• To enable teacher-trainees to again confidence in teaching,
and to master a number of skills by dealing with a small
group of pupils.
CHARACTERISTICS
• It is a scaled down teaching.
• It is less complex than regular teaching.
• It involves lesser number of students, usually 5 to 10.
• It’s duration is short-about 5 to 10 minutes.

6. STEPS
• Demonstration of the skill by the teacher educator by taking a
lesson.
• Preparation of a micro lesson plan by the teacher trainee, for a
suitable content item, which calls for application of the skill
anticipated.
• Teaching of the lesson by the teacher trainee in a simulated set
up, the presence of the observers.
• Providing of immediate feedback to the teacher trainee by the
observers with a view to help him improve the skill.
• Arranging re-planning, re-teaching and re-feedback sessions.
• Repetition of plan, teach, feedback, re-plan, re-teach and re-
feedback cycle till the skill is mastered.

7. ADVANTAGES
• It employs a training strategy specially meant for the purpose of
developing skills.
• It helps accomplish specific teacher competencies.
• The teaching practice gains a higher degree of organisation
because factors such as time, number of students, etc. Could be
controlled.
• It helps gain deeper knowledge due to feedback and re-plan,
re- teach cycles.
• it is more effective in modifying teacher behaviour.

8. LIMITATIONS
• It is skill oriented; content is not emphasised
• It emphasis specific skills; but may result in the neglect of integrated skills.
• It covers only a few specific skills.
• It may raise administrative problems while arranging micro lessons.

9. QUESTIONS
1. What is Micro-teaching?
2. Main objectives of Micro-teaching?
3. What are the characteristics of Micro-teaching?
4. Explain the steps of Micro-teaching?
5. What are the advantages of Micro-teaching?
6. Limitations of Micro-teaching

10. CONCLUSION
Having earned the teacher trainees with a battery of teaching
sub skills .the next stage is the integration of those sub skills in
to the major skill .A deliberate program for integration of sub
skill is called Link Practice or Link Lessons . There are many
methods for Link Practice . One of the method is that after
practicing three sub skills separately . The trainee may
combine all the three sub skills in a lesson of 10 minutes . He
then practices another set of three sub skills separately and
link them .