INNOVATIVE WORK

 INNOVATIVE WORK

MICROTEACHING

 MICROTEACHING

Dr. Allen and his group evolved Microteaching in 1963 in America.

 •Teaching of a small unit of content to the small group of students (6-10 number) in a small amount of time (5-10 min.) 

•To train inexperience student-teachers for acquiring teaching skills. 

•To improve the skills of experience teachers.

Microteaching Cycle

 Step- I : Micro Lesson Plan (may take 2 hrs/ a day)

 Step-II : Teach 5 Min. 

Step-III : Feedback Session 5 Min.

 Step-IV : Re-plan 10 Min. 

Step-V : Re-teach Another group 5 Min.

Characteristics of Microteaching

 1) Duration of teaching as well as number of students are less. 2) Content is divided into smaller units. 

3) Only one teaching skill is considered at a time.

 4) Provision of immediate feedback. 

5) In micro teaching cycle, there is facility of replanning, re-teaching and re-evaluation. 

6) It puts the teacher under the microscope

 7) All the faults of the teacher are observed.

 8) The problem of discipline can also be controlled. 

Skills of Micro teaching Techniques 

1. Introduction Skill 

2. Skill of Probing Questions

 3. Skill of Explanation 

4. Skill of Stimulus Variation 

5. Skill of Black-board Writing

 6. Skill of Achieving Closure

7. Skill of illustrating examples

     As a part of BEd curriculum we have to prepare for microteachng classes. For that I have taked two microteaching skills. Skill of blackboard writing and  skill of illustrating examples.