This document discusses microteaching, a teacher training technique where teachers review recordings of short teaching sessions to get feedback. Microteaching was developed in 1961 at Stanford University. It involves teaching small units of content for 5-10 minutes to small groups of students. The goals are to train new teachers and improve skills of experienced teachers. Microteaching has advantages like modifying teacher behavior, developing skills, and improving practice through individualized training and feedback. However, it only focuses on skills and may not represent normal classroom teaching.

1. GUNJAN SHARMA
Assistant Professor
Pragati College,
Choubey Colony
Raipur (CG)

2. INTRODUCTION
Microteaching 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 students. Microteaching was
invented in the year 1961 at Stanford
University by Dwight W. Allen.

3. MEANING OF MICROTEACHING
• Teaching of a small unit of content to the small group
of students (6-10 number) in a small amount of
time(5-10 min.)
• To train inexperience student-teachers for acquiring
teaching skills.
• To improve the skills of experience teachers.

4. DEFINITION
Allen D.W. (1966): Micro-teaching is a scaled down
teaching encounter size and class time.
Passi, B.K. (1976): The most important point in
microteaching is that teaching is practiced in
terms of definable, observable, measurable and
controllable teaching skills.
Brent & Thomson, 1966: Microteaching is a
technique aiming to prepare teacher candidates
to the real classroom setting.

5. CHARACTERISTICS
1. It is real teaching that focus developing teaching
skill.
It includes:
 5-10 student
 Duration of 5-10 minute
 Small topic with few objectives
 Limited number of teaching skill
2. It is highly individualized instruction.
3. It provides immediate feed back
4. It provides opportunity to modifying the
behavior by repeating the performance.

6. MICROTEACHING CYCLE

9. 1. Writing instructional objectives
2. Introducing a lesson
3. Fluencing in questioning
4. Probing question
5. Explaining
6. Illustrating with example
7. Stimulus variation
8. Reinforcement of learning
9. Nonverbal clues
10.Increasing student participation
11.Using blackboard
12.Achieving closure
13.Recognizing attending behavior
TEACHING SKILLS:

10. ADVANTAGES
 Modification of teacher behaviour
Knowledge of teaching skills
Developing teaching skills
Developing teaching efficiency
Improving teaching practice
Individualised training
Regulating teaching practice
Real teaching
Reducing complexities
Focus on teaching
Continuous reinforcement

11. DISADVANTAGES
•It is skill oriented; Content not emphasized.
•A large number of trainees cannot be given the
opportunity for re-teaching and re-planning.
•It is very time consuming technique.
•It requires special classroom setting.
•It covers only a few specific skills.
•It deviates from normal classroom teaching.
•It may raise administrative problem while arranging
micro lessons

12. Microteaching involves presentation of micro
lesson
Audience..Small group of peers.
Feedback given by peers role playing as students
Participants learn about strengths & weakness in
themselves as teachers.
Plan strategies for improvement in performance.
SUMMARY: