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. Quality of a teacher is estimated on how much the students understand from his/her teaching. Before entering in class, a teacher should know about teaching skills. Actual classroom cannot be used to acquire primary teaching skills. Students learning process will be affected if new teachers make the classroom an experimental place. The main objectives of micro teaching as stated by Otsupius (2014) are that it helps teacher trainees to learn and practice new teaching …show more content…
Teachers get a chance to teach a single concept of content by using specified teaching skills for a short time to a very small member of pupils. These specific conditions allow the trainees to practice the teaching skills in observable and controlled environment. They do the practice repeatedly to attain the mastery in teaching. The complexities of the real teaching practice are scaled down by providing immediate feedback. Trainees come to know about their strengths and weaknesses after watching the video of their micro teaching
Another major issue that is addressed in the article is with the teachers and their teaching styles. The method in which most teachers teach their
The teaching/training cycle is an invaluable model that should inform the practice of any teacher, of any subject. The beauty of it is that it provides a structure so that both teachers and trainers can assess and refresh their practice and, at the same time, review their role, responsibility and boundaries. By following the training cycle, teachers should be able to instill greater understanding of the course that is being taught and to afford students greater enjoyment and satisfaction.
And therefore utilizes six variables as an integral part of the teaching procedure that include Errorless teaching, Most-to-least Prompts, Variable Ratio of Reinforcement, Mix and Vary instructional Demands, Intersperse Easy and Hard Demands and lastly Fluency , using discrete trail teaching as well as Natural Environment Teaching for carrying out effective and efficient teaching ( Lesson 5, ppt, Slide-15)
It is important to decide at an early stage on the most appropriate teaching method for each candidate, to enable every candidate to achieve their learning goal in the easiest way possible. Some candidates will not respond well to classroom style teaching and may require one to one assistance for them to develop, others may develop their understanding better through demonstration or through explanations given by the tutor.
Students will respond to the lesson in different ways and often there are “teachable moments” that were not included in the original lesson. The effective teacher can incorporate various instructional strategies to fit the moment and the individual student’s needs at that moment.
In addition to the evidence-based teaching strategy, the teacher used numerous effective classroom practises. For example, she connected the learning to real-world problem solving (finding the area of an irregular room), she monitored their understanding by asking them how they got their answer, and positive reinforcement by praising their process.
In chapter 2, "Learning to Teach," is based on the knowledge. Teachers need three kinds of knowledge: (1) knowledge of self and students- the ability to understand themselves students, and know students' aptitudes, talents, learning styles, stage of development, and readiness to learn material, (2) knowledge of subject- is to modify strategies based upon students' perception of content. In teaching a subject area, teachers should use analogies, metaphors, experiments, demonstrations and illustrations. (3) Knowledge of educational theory and research- enables teachers to
In Repetitive Microteaching: Learning to Teach Elementary Social Studies, Anderson, Barr, and LaBAIJ (2012) investigated the influence of repeated practice through microteaching on multiple small groups of fourth grade students by preservice teachers. For each social studies lesson the preservice teachers would teach each small group of fourth graders four times in one single session. Anderson, Barr, and LaBAIJ (2012) found that the microteaching model in the elementary classroom provided repeated practice and authentic opportunities to preservice teachers.
There are different styles of teaching, as each pupil will learn in a different style, these include visual learners, auditory learners and kinesthetic learners. These learners all need different ways of helping them to learn. For example a
In the practice of teaching, it is the responsibility of a teacher not only to teach students subject matter, but to teach students in order to enable them to grow and develop as a person. While it is essential for students to have an understanding of academic material, it is also equally as important that when students finish their education they have skills to use in
Students have their own best way in effectively learning the lesson. With the diversity of students, the problem is each student has a preferred learning style. It becomes undeniably one of the reasons that make it difficult to achieve the best expected outcome out of teachers’ effort. However, teachers try to incorporate various teaching techniques to make every learning opportunity become productive, meaningful, and relevant for the learners.
Learning is best for students whenever their teacher applies emotion, gives them the requisite support and challenges them. It is through such process that students gain in-depth learning and thus discover their values, abilities, passions as well as responsibilities in learning situations that provide adventure. In most school lessons, students undertake tasks that require them to use their creativity, self-discipline and craftsmanship. It is thus the work of the teacher to assist the students discover their hidden abilities and overcome their fears in applying their knowledge to classroom and job problems through in-depth teaching practice.
Classroom observation is a main approach of teaching research. Scholars or researchers use video to record the real whole class and observe the teachers and students’ actions, words and the efficiency in the class. Though the observation, they analyze what approach is more suitable. This paper will select video 5 and video 3 as the material to do the classroom observation. Different aspects such as teachers’ responds, questions, instructions notes and students’ behavior will be addressed to analyze the efficacy of this class.
This essay will analyse and highlight on the fifteen-minute micro teaching reflection that is vital for the self-evaluation and professional development of my teaching practice. It will further identify my strengths and weaknesses through my peer assessment and reflect on the teaching and learning theories, methods and strategies that are linked and practiced in my micro-teach.
There is no one size fits all teaching strategy for all students. Therefore teachers must use a variety of teaching strategies to cater for a variety of different learners (Gill, 2013). It is important for teachers to regularly evaluate their practices and whether they are meeting the learning needs of all students (Zeichner & Liston, 1987). Self-evaluation can assist teachers to improve the educational experiences provided for students and assist in identifying the professional education you need to further develop your capacity to teach well (Schwartz, n.d.). As a future teacher developing learning programs, teaching, assessing, providing feedback on student learning and reporting to parents/carers are skills I must be proficient in.