Microteaching is a technique used to train teachers by having them teach short lessons to small groups of students. It allows trainees to focus on practicing and improving specific teaching skills. The process involves selecting a skill to practice, teaching a short lesson to peers while being recorded, receiving feedback, reteaching with adjustments based on the feedback, and repeating until the skill is mastered. By scaling down the class size, lesson length, and topic, microteaching provides trainees an opportunity to experiment with their teaching and quickly incorporate suggestions for improvement.

2.  It is highly individualized training device and
experiment in the field of teacher education
 The trainee can concentrate on practicing a
specific, well defined skill.
 It is skill training technique and not a
teaching technique.
 It is a scale down technique. Scaling down
the class size to 5-10 students, duration to 5
to 10 minutes, size of the topic.
 Provide immediate feedback- feedback by
pupil teachers, video recording, supervisor
etc.

3.  It is a cyclic process to reflect upon your
practice skill and re-practice it until
mastered.
 Less administrative problems arise as
teaching sessions are organized with peers.
 Micro teaching provides an opportunity to
under take research studies with better
control over conditions and situations.
 Micro teaching can be used as an integral
part of teacher training in India as
sophisticated gadgetry is not a must.

6.  It is the first step in micro- teaching
practice. This involves,
 selection of the skill to be practiced,
 awareness of components of the skill,
 selection of a suitable concept,
 and writing of micro lesson with specific
objectives.

7.  The following setting is suggested for the
micro teaching technique.
 Time: 6 minutes
 Students: peer group- 5 to 10
 Supervisors: 1or 2
 If possible, use of CCTV facility could be
made to enable the teacher trainee to get a
first hand look at his weaknesses.

8.  This is a vital aspect of the micro teaching
cycle.
 To be effective it must be clearly related to
the model of the teaching skill used.
 Focus the feedback on to specific
behaviors and can be used for the analysis
session or be just given to the teacher
trainee with a written comment or rating of
his/her skill performance.

9.  Teacher trainee re-plan the lesson in order to
practice the small skill effectively in the
light of the discussion and suggestion.
 Keeping in mind the feedback received
writing another micro lesson plan or editing
the existing one.

10.  The teacher trainee re teaches,
incorporating the suggested changes with the
same students or another group of 5
students.
 Supervisor checks to see whether there is
any improvement in skill attainment.
 The teaching is now followed by discussion of
suggestions and encouragement to the
teaching performance.

11.  The supervisor assesses the lesson again
pointing out the improvements and lapses.
 The same process repeated until master in
particular skill.