Micro Teaching
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
Characteristics of Microteaching
1) Duration of teaching as well as number of students are less
2) Content is divided into smaller units
3) Only one teaching skill is considered at a time
4) Provision of immediate feedback
5)In micro teaching cycle, there is facility of re-planning re-teaching and re-evaluation
6) It puts the teacher under the microscope
7) All the faults of the teacher are observed
8) The problem of discipline can also be controlled
