Micro Teaching Skill

1. Skill of
Questioning

4. 1. Is it true that honesty is the best policy?
2. What about the importance of the structure
of classroom questions?
3. What is pronoun and how does it differ from
noun?
4. Can you tell me as to what is the name of
the president of India who is the highest
authority in the country?

5. 1. (Inappropriately structured)
Why is honesty the best policy?
2. (Ambiguous question)
Why do you think that the structure
of classroom questions is important
for effective teaching?

6. 3. (Double barrelled question) -
What is pronoun?
- How does it differ from noun?
4. (Question is not precise)
Who is the president of India?

8. Different situations:
No response
Incorrect response
Partial response
Correct response

9. Skill of Questioning
Skill of Fluency in Questioning
Skill of Probing Questions

10. Components of
Questioning skill
Relevancy
Precision
Clarity
Grammatically correct
Level of the question

11. Example:
Relevancy
Teacher- What is noun?
Student- Noun is the name of a person, place or a
thing.
Teacher- Which word is a noun in this sentence?
Student- Allahabad
Teacher- Have you ever visited Allahabad? (Not
relevant)
Student- Yes

12. Example-
Precision
Teacher- Can you tell me as to what is the name
of the president of India who is the highest
authority in the country? (Not precise)
Teacher- Who is the president of India?
(Precise)

13. Example-
Clarity
Teacher- What problems accompany the
migration based urbanisation? (Not clear)
Teacher- What problems arise when large
number of people move to cities? (Clarity)

14. Example-
Grammatical correctness
- When did Olympic Games started?
(Grammatically incorrect)
- When did Olympic Games start?
(Correct)

15. Example-
Level of question
Lower order (memory)
Middle order (translation,
interpretation and application)
Higher order (analysis, synthesis
and evaluation)

16. Components of Skill of
Probing Questions
Prompting
Seeking further information
Redirecting
Refocusing
Increasing critical awareness

17. Example:
Prompting
Teacher- What are the functions of
municipality?
Student- no response
Teacher- Who supplies water to your city?
Student- Municipality

18. Example:
Seeking further information
Teacher- What are the functions of
municipality?
Student- To supply water to the whole
city.
Teacher- What are the other functions?

19. Example:
Redirecting
Teacher- What are the characteristics of
oxygen?
Neha- No response
Teacher- What are the characteristics of
oxygen? (Pointing to some other student)
(Redirecting)
Richa- It helps in burning.

20. Example:
Refocusing
Teacher- Do gases dissolve in water?
Student- Yes
Teacher- Name any gas which demonstrates that
gases dissolve in water. (Refocusing)
Student- When we open a bottle of aerated drink/
soda water, gas dissolved in the water comes out
immediately in the form of bubbles but, soon they
disappear.

21. Example:
Increasing critical awareness
- How oxygen helps in burning?

28. References:
Micro-Teaching- Jangira & Singh
Micro-Teaching- L.C. Singh