What is teaching?

Teaching is the activity of

facilitating learning.
The best approach to
understand the nature of
teaching is establishing a
harmonious relationship between
teacher, student and subject

Teachers role in teaching

Knowledge

transmitter,
primary source of
information, content expert
and source of all answers.
Teacher controls and directs
all aspects of learning.
Learning facilitator,
collaborator,

Students role in teaching

active

recipient of
information.
Learning collaboratively with
others.
Producing and sharing
knowledge, participating at
time as expert.

What is microteaching?
Teaching of a small unit of content to the small
group of students(6-10number)in a small
amount of time(5-10min.)
To train inexperience student-teachers for
acquiring teaching skills.
To improve the skills of experience teachers.
Dr. Allen and his group evolved microteaching
in 1963 in America.

Microteaching cycle
Step
Step
Step
Step
Step
Step

1: lesson plan
2:teach
3:feedback session
4:re-plan
5: re-teach
6:re-feedback

Characteristics of
microteaching
Duration of teaching as well as number of
students are less.
Content is divided into smaller units.
Only one teaching skill is considered at a
time.
Provision of immediate feedback.
In microteaching cycle, there is facility of replanning, re-teaching and re-evaluation.
All the faults of the teacher are observed.

comparison

Class consists of 40 to
60 students .
The teacher practices
several skills at a
time.
The duration is 40-45
minutes.
Immediate feedback is
not available.

Traditional teaching

Class consists of a
small group of 6-to 10
students.
The teacher takes up
one skill at a time.
Duration of time for
teaching is 5 to 10
minutes.
Teaching is controlled
on under controlled
situation

Micro teaching

Skills of microteaching
techniques
Introduction
Skill
Skill
Skill
Skill
Skill

of
of
of
of
of

Skill
Probing Question
Explanation
Stimulus Variation
Black-board Writing
Achieving Closure.

Advantages of
microteaching
It

focuses on sharpening and

developing specific teaching skills
and eliminating errors.
It enables understanding of
behaviours important in classroom
teaching.
It increases the confidence of the
learner teacher.
It provides experts supervision and
constructive feedback

Questions
A)

What is teaching?
B) What is microteaching?
C) How does microteaching
differ from
traditional
teaching?
D) what are the main steps in
microteaching?
E) Points out some major
advantages of microteaching?