A technology supported environment in the educational context has been identified as a useful work space with the potential to deepen the learning experience. This study focuses on ways of using it for the development of reflection as a key teaching competence within initial teacher training. It is based on the premise that enriched reflection…

This article reports on the results of a qualitative case study that addresses recent calls for greater attention to clinical aspects of practice and experiment in teacher education programmes. Grounded in the notion of approximations of practice, this study uses the analytic lens of teacher identity to understand how one group of preservice…

The integration of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) into subject teaching adds an extra layer of complexity for teacher educators. There are technical ICT skills to be taught and there are also many questions about how these skills relate to the development of subject knowledge and pedagogy. This article analyses the impact of the…

Although there is not much data on microteaching because it has been in use only nine years, the available data indicates that it is very effective for teacher training courses. Bibliography. (AF)

Discusses a study that concluded that reflective teaching is as effective as microteaching in preparing students to teach. No differences were found in the dependent variables according to the type of teaching laboratory. Student attitudes toward teaching, perceptions of teaching and teaching ability, and performance during student teaching were…

A program was initiated at Indiana State University (ISU), Terre Haute, to enable students to complete their student teaching during the summer. Twenty-four students participated in the program which provided four hours of activity daily, two to four hours of which were spent in teaching. Principles of using video tape for studying lesson…

The Elementary Education Department at East Carolina University, in cooperation with the public schools in the area, has developed a program that involves videotaping approximately 60 student teachers located throughout eastern North Carolina. The taping was made possible through close coordination of university supervisors, public school…

Three microteaching formats were compared: microteaching with peers, microteaching with university freshmen, and microteaching with high school pupils. Thirty social studies methods students were assigned to one of the three formats for six experiences. Each experience included periods of instruction and practice. Assessments were made at the end…

A study was conducted to determine differences between teachers trained in the Nebraska University Secondary Teacher Education Projects (NUSTEP) and those trained in a standard program. The NUSTEP program was composed of three classes which were also offered in the standard program; NUSTEP students, however, practiced teaching skills using…

The Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) was used to test the existence of a relationship between attitudes to microteaching and personality of students. A correlation between extroversion and favorable attitude to microteaching, and a negative relationship between neuroticism and favorable attitude to microteaching is demonstrated; however, the…

Examines an experiment which compares the effects of two forms of laboratory teaching experience (reflective teaching and microteaching) on student teachers' views of themselves as teachers, attitudes toward teaching, perceptions of the role of teaching, attitudes toward the type of laboratory teaching experience engaged in, and teaching…

Earlier research has demonstrated that verbal teaching behaviors can be modified through the Teaching Laboratory (TL), which consists of peer group microteaching experiences. This study investigated whether or not these behaviors would persist into later student teaching. Each of 50 secondary student teachers, who were divided into control and…