experience of micro teaching

Within the literature on teaching in nursing there appears to be little attention paid to the use of microteaching to enhance learning. Its’ use has been advocated by a number of authors, but for the novice teacher,there is little advice available on how to plan or implement a teaching session using this strategy.

The purpose of this article is to report two lecturers’ experiences of using microteaching to teach presentation skills to a group of student teachers. Teague et al’s (1994) five-step preparation process was utilised to guide the process of planning, implementing and evaluating the use of microteaching.

objectives of micro teaching

Objectives of Microteaching
• To enable teacher trainees to learn and assimilate new teaching skills under controlled conditions.
• To enable teacher trainees to master a number of teaching skills.
• To enable teacher trainees to gain confidence in teaching.

Characteristic of Microteaching
• Microteaching is a highly individualized training device
• Microteaching is an experiment in the field of teacher education which has been incorporated in the practice teaching schedule

Micro-Teaching

Definition
"A system of controlled practice that makes it possible to concentrate on specific teaching behavior and to practice teaching under controlled condition".  Allen and Eve (1968).
Characteristics of Micro-teaching :

1. Micro element :  Micro-teaching reduces the complexity of the teaching situation in terms of.
   1. Number of students to be taught.
   2. Duration of lesson.
   3. Subject matter to be taught to enable the trainee to concentrate on a particular teaching skill at a time.  One should master the components of the task of teaching before he attempts to perform effectively the complicated task of teaching at macro-level.