Highlights are presented of a California in-service fair, the "Teacher Teaser Show." Within a vaudevillian format, 15 minute presentations were made of exciting, successful teaching techniques in various subject areas. Interested audience members could join presenters after the show for more detailed information. Several of the…

Three related studies of the impact of variations in classroom and field experiences on preservice students' knowledge, skill, and reflectiveness are reported. Videotaped and live demonstrations of teaching strategies (the schema-theoretic approach and a conventional approach) and clinical seminars and microteaching were compared. (IAH)

Four short lessons on Boolean Algebra were recorded on video tape. A week later the participating students were shown the tapes and asked to comment. Responses to the interviewer were recorded, transcribed, and interpreted. (SD)

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…

In a microsupervision workshop experiment designed to investigate group differences in acquiring an indirect style of supervisory conference behavior, 18 elementary school inservice teachers were randomly assigned to a video-modeling, written-modeling and performance-feedback treatment or non-treatment. Criterion performances were the frequency…

This study sought to determine how video-taping and micro-teaching as a strategy for training student teachers affects the conduct of an English lesson prepared for bilingual students. An extensive review of the literature presents research findings on general concerns in teacher training, video-taping and micro-teaching as a strategy of teacher…

The use of television, videotape and film in microteaching is discussed. These and other developments in modern technology can be most useful in teacher education if combined with new integrated training systems. (Text is in French.) (AM)

This study determined the effects of the opportunity to acquire a questioning strategy related to content-oriented values clarification inquiry and investigated whether teachers given the same objective of incorporating values clarification into their on-going content-related lessons could do so without receiving training in an appropriate…

This anthology of articles and reports on micro-team teaching (a scaled down team teaching operation usually taking place in a single, self-contained classroom with two student teachers and one cooperating teacher) is divided into three sections. Section One, "An Overview of Micro-Team Teaching," discusses trends in the preservice phase of teacher…

This is the sixth study in a project designed to find more effective and efficient ways of using micro-teaching and video recording in programs of vocational teacher education. In this field test of the feasibility and potential applicability of four related feedback and analysis techniques used in an inservice teacher education program for…

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between wait-time and two classroom interaction variables: cognitive level of teacher questions and length of student response. The interval of time between a teacher question and the next verbal response by teacher or student (wait-time) was measured using an electrocardiograph with…

A summary of research and related literature on the problem of identifying indicators of teacher effectiveness, this publication is divided into 3 sections: (1) traditional indicators of teacher effectiveness in terms of good teaching procedures (e.g., positive reinforcement) and desirable personality characteristics (e.g., ability to set a…

Arguments for microteaching as part of an introductory methods course are presented, and the role of the supervisor in setting up and conducting a microteaching laboratory is explored. (JMF)

The effectiveness of a minicourse designed to improve the questioning skills of student teachers in grades 4-6 was investigated. Microteaching experience and supervisory feedback on student teaching behavior were provided for the experimental group, who made more significant gains in effective teaching behavior than the control group. (GDC)