Microteaching is a technique used in teacher training where teachers practice teaching a short lesson to a small group of students. The lessons are recorded and reviewed to provide feedback on teaching skills. The goals of microteaching are to help teachers learn and master new skills, gain confidence, and receive feedback to improve. It involves teaching a small content unit for 5-7 minutes to 6-10 students. The microteaching cycle includes planning, teaching, receiving feedback, re-planning, re-teaching, and further feedback. Microteaching allows teachers to experiment with skills in a low-pressure environment and receive constructive criticism to develop their teaching abilities.

1. Microteaching
Prepared by :
Snehal Kapadiya
M.Sc Nursing,
Mental Health Nursing

2. Definition
 Defined micro teaching as “A scaled down teaching
encounter in class size and class time”.

3. Meaning:
 Microteaching means the teaching of a small unit of content
to the small group of students (6-10)in a small amount of
time(5-7 min).
 Micro-teaching is a teacher training and faculty
development technique wheryby the teacher reviews a
recording of a teaching session, in order to get constructive
feedback from peers/students about what has worked and
what improvements can be made to their teaching
technique.

4. Objectives of Microteaching
 To enable teacher trainees to learn and assimilate new
teaching skills under controlled conditions.
 To enable teacher trainees to master a number of teaching
skills.
 To enable teacher trainees to gain confidence in teaching.
 Microteaching is an experiment in the field of teacher
education.
 It is a student teaching skill training technique and not a
teaching technique or method.

5. Characteristics of
Microteaching
 The duration of teaching as well as number of students are
less.
 The content is divided in to smaller units which makes the
teaching easier.
 Only one teaching skill is considered at a time.
 There is a provision of immediate feedback.
 An microteaching cycle, there is facility of re-planning, re-
teaching, re-evaluation.

6. Cont.……
 It puts the teacher under the microscope.
 All the faults of the teacher are observed.
 The problems of discipline can also be controlled.

7. Microteaching cycle
(1)
PLAN
(2)
TEACH
(3)
FEEDBACK
(4)
RE-PLAN
(5)
RE-TEACH
(6) RE-
FEEDBA
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8. Advantages of micro-
teaching
 Micro teaching reduces the complexity of the classroom
teaching.
 It is foundation of teaching, especially student teachers.
 It is real classroom teaching.
 It increases the confidence of the learner teacher.
 It is best way to improve teaching skill among student
teachers.
 It is provide experts supervision and constructive feedback.
 It is a vehicle of continuous training for both beginners and
for senior teachers

9. Disadvantages of
microteaching
 It involves increased time and effort.
 The various teaching skills cannot be discriminated.
 It cannot individualize the learning of the teacher.
 No constructive feedback.
 No opportunity to re-teach the lesson to implement what is
learnt from feedback.
 It is adversial towards the students.

10. Limitation of
microteaching
 Involves increased time and effort.
 Costly
 It is passive process of learning by limitation.
 The various teaching skills cannot be discriminated and may
not be coordinated later.
 Cannot be used to individualize the learning of the students
teachers.

11. Cont..
 At times, there may be no constructive feedback
 There is always the possibility of bad role models.
 Required equipment and resources for microteaching
may not be available or used

12. Feedback in microteaching
 Feedback is the information supplied to the individual.
 The success of microteaching depends on feedback.Which
can also be used within the process of teaching as well as
after the lesson taught.
 It is used in various forms in case of microteaching by the
supervisor, video-tape, films,T.V, Which are various sources
of feedback.