Micro teaching was first adopted by Dwight W. Allen and his co-workers at Stanford University, USA while in India the first attempt was made in 1974 to spread micro teaching.
Micro Teaching is a technique in which a teacher is trained for leaming teaching skills In this technique, the teacher is put in a real-life situation wherein their skills are developed and they tend to get a deeper understand of the subject matter
Microteaching as a training technique, which requires student teachers to teach a single concept using specified teaching skill to a smaller number of pupils in a short duration of time.
B.K. Pasi Teaching of a small unit of content to the small group of students (6-10 number) in a small amount of time (5-10 min.)
To train inexperience student-teachers for acquiring teaching skills
To improve the skills of experience teachers