Micro-teaching is a technique used to train teachers where they teach short lessons called micro-lessons to small groups of 5-10 students for 5-10 minutes. This allows teachers to practice specific skills in a controlled environment. The objectives are to help teachers learn new skills and gain confidence in teaching. Key aspects of micro-teaching include scaling down the lesson size, focusing on specific skills, providing feedback to teachers to improve, and repeating the process until skills are mastered.

1. WELCOME

2. MICRO-TEACHING
Presented by
AKHILA SANTHOSH

3. WHAT IS MICRO –TEACHING?
Micro-teaching 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.

5. DEFINITION OF MICRO-TEACHING
Micro teaching is defined as “a scaled down
teaching encounter in a class size and class
time”.it is also defined as “a teacher training
procedure which reduces 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”.

6. OBJECTIVES OF MICRO-TEACHING
1. To enable teacher-trainees to learn and
assimilate new teaching skills under controlled
conditions.
2. To enable teacher-trainees to gain confidence
in teaching, and to master a number of skills
by dealing with a small of pupils.

7. CHARACTERISTICS OF MICRO- TEACHING
1. It is a scaled down teaching.
2. It is less complex than regular teaching.
3. It involves fewer numbers if students,
usually 5 to 10.
4. It’s duration is short – about 5 to 10
minutes.

8. STEPS IN MICRO- TEACHING
1. Defining the skills to be developed in terms of
specific teaching behaviour.
2. Demonstration of the skill by the teacher educator
by taking a lesson.
3. Based on the model, preparation of a lesson plan
by the teacher trainee, for a suitable topic, which
calls for the skill anticipated.
4. Teaching of the lesson by the teacher trainee in a
stimulated set up, in the presence of observer.

9. 5. Providing of immediate feed-back to the
teacher trainee by the observers with a view
to help him improve the skill.
6. Arranging re-planning, re-teaching and re-
feedback sessions.
7. Repetition of ‘plan, teach, feedback, re-
planning, re-teaching and re-feedback’ cycle
till the skill is acquired.

10. MICRO- TEACHING CYCLE

11. MICRO-TEACHING PROCEDURE
 Micro-teaching procedure involves three phases. They are:
1. Knowledge acquisition phase : Observing the demonstration
of the skill and analyzing it and discussing about the
demonstration.
2. Skill acquisition phase : Preparing the micro lesson involving
the skill and practicing the skill while teaching.
3. Transfer phase : Evaluating performance through feedback,
re-plan, re-teach and transfer of skill to actual class teaching
in macro sessions.

12. ADVANTAGES OF MICRO-TEACHING
 Micro-teaching is flexible and adaptable to different needs and
purposes. It has many advantages as listed below:
1. Teacher-trainees trained through micro-teaching are found to perform
better than those trained by traditional method.
2. It employs real teaching for the purpose of developing skills.
3. It helps accomplish specific teacher competencies.
4. The teaching practice gains a higher degree of organisation because
factors such as time, number of students, etc. could be controlled.

13. 5. It helps gain deeper knowledge due to feedback and re-
plan, re-teach cycles.
6. It is more effective in modifying teacher behavior.
7. It helps in developing important teaching skills such as
questioning, reinforcement of student participation, etc.
8. It is an effective technique for transfer of teaching
competencies to class room.
9. It provides many opportunities to trainees to build up
desired patterns of behavior in a non-threatening set up.

14. LIMITATIONS OF MICRO-TEACHING
1. It is skill oriented; content is not
emphasized.
2. It emphasizes specific skills; but neglects
integrated skills.
3. It covers only a few specific skills.
4. It may raise administrative problems
while arranging micro lessons.

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