1. Dr.P.S SREEDEVI
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
GANDHIGRAM RURAL INSTITUTE – DEEMED TO BE
UNIVERSITY
GANDHIGRAM – 624 302, DINDIGUL DISTRICT
SKILL BASED REFLECTIVE
TEACHING AT HIGHER EDUCATION
2. TEACHERS ROLE - TRANSFORMATION
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5. AVERAGE LEARNING RETENTION RATES
* National Training Laboratories for Applied Behavioral Sciences 3/14/2020
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6. REFLECTIVE- DEFINITION
“Reflective is an intellectual and affective action
in which individual engages to explore this
experiences in order to lead to new understanding
and application”
-Bound,2000
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7. REFLECTIVE TEACHING
Reflective teaching is a process where teachers
think over their teaching practices, analyzing how
something was taught and how the practice might
be improved or changed for better learning
outcomes.
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8. MICRO TEACHING - ORIGIN
Originated at Stanford University in USA in the late
1950s by Dwight W. Allen, Robert Bush, and Kim
Romney.
Microteaching is a scaled- down teaching encounter in
class size and time.
-D.W.Allen(1966)
The number of students is from 5-10, and the duration
of period ranges from 5-20 minutes.
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9. OBJECTIVE & CONCEPT
To provide the participants with an environment for
practice-based teaching to instill self-evaluative
skills.
CONCEPT
A single skill for practice
One concept of content for teaching
A class of 5-10 students
5-10 minutes of practice time
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11. PHASES IN MICROTECHING
KNOWLEDGE AQUISITION PHASE
SKILL AQUISITION PHASE
TRANSFER PHASE
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12. KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION PHASE
Learns about the skills and its components
through discussion, illustrations and
demonstration of the skill given by the expert.
Analyses the skill into components leads to
various types of behaviours to be practiced.
Discusses and clarifies each and every aspect of
skill
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13. SKILL ACQUISITION PHASE
The teacher trainee plans a micro – lesson plan for
practicing.
Practice the teaching skill through the micro
teaching cycle and continues efforts till he/she
attains the mastery level.
The feedback components of micro teaching
contributes significantly towards the mastery level
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14. TRANSFER PHASE
REAL CLASSROOM TEACHING WITH
IMPROVED PERFORMANCE
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15. CORE MICRO TECHING SKILLS
1. Set Induction /Introduction Skill
2. Skill of Probing Questions
3. Skill of Explanation
4. Skill of Stimulus Variation
5. Skill of Reinforcement
6. Skill of Black-board Writing
7. Skill of Classroom Management
8. Skill of Achieving Closure
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16. SET INDUCTION
Establishing rapports with the learners
Linking with past experiences
Maximum utilization of previous knowledge of pupils
Link between introduction and main parts
Use of appropriate devices/ techniques like
questioning, examples, etc.
Arouse interest
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17. SKILL OF PROBING QUESTIONS
Prompting technique
Seeking further information technique
Redirection technique
Refocusing technique
Increasing critical awareness techniques
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18. SKILL OF PROBING QUESTIONS
Questions
Introductory or
preliminary
questions
Developing
Questions
Recaptulatory
questions
Evaluating or
Testing
Questions
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19. SKILL OF EXPLANATION
Ability of a teacher to describe logically ‘How’,
‘Why’ and ‘What’ of concept
a) Use simple language
b) Should be in a sequence
c) Should be according to the age, experience and
mental level of the pupils
d) Questions to test pupils understanding
e) Should NOT be given the shape of an advice.
f) Avoid irrelevant statements, phrases and vague
words
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20. SKILL OF STIMULUS VARIATION
Teacher movements
Teacher gestures
Change in voice
Focusing
Change in the interaction pattern
Pausing
Student’s physical participation
Oral visual switching
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21. SKILL OF REINFORCEMENT
Positive verbal reinforcement
Positive non verbal reinforcement
Negative verbal reinforcement
Negative non verbal reinforcement
Wrong use of reinforcements
Inappropriate use of reinforcement
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22. SKILL OF BLACKBOARD WRITING
I. LEGIBILITY OF HANDWRITING
Adequate spacing between two letters, two words
The size of the letter is large enough to be read
from the far end of the room
The size of the capital letter is just bigger than the
small letter
All the capital letters are same size
All the small letters are of the same size
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II. NEATNESS
The words and sentences written are parallel to the
base of the blackboard
Adequate spacing between the lines
Retention of relevant matter on the blackboard
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III. APPROPRIATENESS
Continuity in the points
Brief and simple points
Underlining the important points
Use of colour chalk pieces
Diagrams drawn Simple, large, clear and
proportionate in size
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25. SKILL OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Calling pupils by their names
Framing norms of classroom behaviour
Giving clear directions
Ensuring sufficient work for each child
Keeping pupils in eye span
Shifting from one activity to another activity smoothly
Recognizing and reinforcing attentive behaviour of pupils
Checking inappropriate behaviour of pupils
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26. SKILL OF ACHIEVING CLOSURE
Questions and statements by the teacher related to the
consolidation of the major points covered during the
lesson.
Opportunities provided by the teacher to the pupils
Linking the present knowledge with the past
knowledge
Linking the present knowledge with the pupils’
future learning
Applying the knowledge gained during the lesson to
the new situations.
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29. INTEGRATION OF CORE TEACHING SKILLS
Micro
Teaching
Reflective
Teaching
Macro
Teaching
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30. DISCUSSION…
The quality of an educational
system cannot exceed
the quality of its teachers.”
(Malm 2009:78)
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