Microteaching In Micro Teaching

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A teacher training technique which is known as micro teaching is practiced all over the world. This technique helps the teachers to improve their teaching skills. The history of microteaching goes back to the early and mid-1960 's, when Dwight Allen and his colleagues (Bush, McDonald, Acheson and many more) from the Stanford University developed a training program aimed to improve verbal and nonverbal aspects of teacher 's speech and general performance. According to D.W.Allan (1966), “Micro teaching is a scaled down teaching encounter in class size and class time”. Micro teaching enhances the presentation and reinforcement skills which further aid in real time teaching experience. During teaching in real classroom, it is not only a simple matter of transferring the knowledge from one to another. Actually it is a complex process that directly influences the process of learning. The article reveals this information that 72% of the participant student teachers and 78% of the participants’ supervisors have agreed that micro-teaching approach helped student teachers in more diverse teaching methods. They discussed the merits of micro teaching in details. The purpose of the study was to perceive the merits of microteaching on the behalf of student teachers. Secondly, to assess the teacher’s perception on the merits of microteaching using the inventory. The sample consisted of 75 science student teachers and that inventory was later tested on 67 trainees who belong to science

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