Microteaching is a teacher training technique developed by Dr. Allen at Stanford University in 1963 where teachers practice teaching a short lesson to a small group of students. The microteaching cycle involves planning a short lesson, teaching it, getting feedback, re-planning based on the feedback, and re-teaching. Some key characteristics of microteaching include using a variety of teaching methods like questioning, lecturing, and reinforcement to engage students and provide clear instruction. Microteaching allows teachers to focus on developing specific skills and get feedback to improve, though it can reduce creativity and be time-consuming.

1. Microteaching
Dr. Ghulam Mustafa Kataria

2. • What is microteaching?
• Microteaching cycle
• Characteristics
• Advantages
• Disadvantages

3. • Dr. Allen and his group evolved microteaching
in 1963 at Stanford university

4. Definition
• “Micro-teaching 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 peers and/or students about what has
worked and what improvements can be made
to their teaching technique." (Allen)

5. • Teaching of a small unit of content to a small
group of students in a small amount of time.
• To train students/ teachers for acquiring
teaching skills.
• To improve the skills of an experienced
teacher.

6. Microteaching Cycle
1.Plan
2.Teach
3.Feedback
4.Re-plan
5.Re- Teach
6.Re- Feed
back

7. Characteristics
• Set Induction: developing rapport between
students and teacher.
• Stimulus variation: to maintain the attention
of students.
• Fluency in questioning: using
comprehension, application, analysis and
synthesis techniques.

8. Contd…
• Recognizing attending behaviour: observing students
verbal and non verbal response to learning.
• Lecturing : Simple, clear, audible, organised and
confident.
• Nor verbal language: Smile, nodding etc.
• Question skills: Asking questions for further
clarification.

9. Contd..
• Re-enforcing learning: praising students for
correct response.
• Illustrating with use of examples
• Closure:That help learner to relate new
knowledge with the old one.

10. Advantages
• Focus on developing specific skills and
eliminating errors.
• It enables understanding of behaviour
important in class room.
• Provide an opportunity of expert supervision
and feedback.

11. Disadvantages
• Reduces the creativity of teacher.
• Time consuming.
• Can not be used in all teaching methods.

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