This article reports an analysis of teacher students' teaching achievement in designing lesson plans, improving teaching practice, and developing teacher competency. The research followed a mixed method research design, combining quantitative and qualitative data. It further employed a one-group pretest-posttest design in a quasi-experimental…

Objectives of this articles are to present the findings of video recorded communication between teacher candidates and peers during simulated micro-teaching. The micro-teaching activity in its entirety combines conventional face-to-face interaction, video micro-teaching, peer and instructor feedback, alongside self-reflection to undergird the…

This paper explored the preparation and organization of teaching practice exercise to prospective science and mathematics teachers in Tanzania teachers college specifically Morogoro Teachers' College toward improving teaching profession. Due to the challenges stated by different scholars on preparation and organization of teaching practice…

This study investigated preservice science teachers' uses of inscriptions in their peer teaching activities and was guided by the following research questions: (1) What kinds of inscriptions and inscriptional practices do preservice science teachers use in their peer teaching activity? and (2) How and for what purposes do preservice science…

This article describes the use of microteaching lesson study as an approach to promoting collaboration and learning among teachers, particularly those in prospective-teacher education programs, through a repeated cyclic process of developing, implementing, analyzing, and revising mathematics lessons and reporting their experience. (Contains 3…

Program uses peer observers in lieu of videotapes; includes teaching of both peers and actual students. (RT)

In situations where it is not possible for trainees to practice teaching in local schools, teaching short lessons to their peers--called microteaching--can provide beneficial experience and feedback to teachers-in-training. The article includes guidelines for presenters, observers, and teacher trainers as well as a sample practicum class schedule…

To gauge the effect of different microteaching variables on the effectiveness of microteaching, three treatment conditions were set up. In the oral group, oral evaluation by the supervisor was not available to the subjects (student teachers). In the video group, video recording or playback was not available. In the peer group, ninth-grade…

Microteaching has been widely used in the training of high school teachers for the past several years. In some cases, trainees have taught actual secondary students in the microteaching situation. In other cases, the trainees have played the role of students in a peer-teaching mode of microteaching. This study compared the real and peer-teaching…

If prospective teachers are expected to transfer their classroom theory to school situations, identical or highly similar situations should be provided to show the learner the relationship between the theoretical elements presented in college lectures and the actual teaching behaviors to which they apply. While field experience in an authentic…

This paper presents an innovative approach to finding an appropriate setting for preservice teachers to practice teaching methods and skills. Microteaching to peers is most common in teacher preparation, but it has obvious flaws in gaining realistic responses to questions and genuine discussion of topics presented. Teaching to actual students is…

Peer-group microteaching has been used for several years as an element of the foreign language methods course for Foreign Language Education students at the University of Minnesota. Students viewed the experience as the most important aspect of their pre-student-teaching courses and preparation experiences. The study is described. (CHK)

Micro-peer teaching is an important step in preservice teacher education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A three-lesson sequence used in a secondary methods course for physical education teachers is outlined. (PP)

Reviews 200+ studies on microteaching. Argues that the use of microteaching in pre- and inservice education leads to positive and long-term effects in the acquisition of verbal and non-verbal behaviorial patterns, integration of learning into individual behavioral repertoire, and in the transfer into professional teaching practice. (CAJ)