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Unit-11: Micro Teaching

Introduction Notes

Micro teaching is a new symbol of hope and excitement in the field of teaching and training and is a

challenging voice call for teachers and trainers. Micro teaching has come as a boon for training colleges.
As a result, today’s teachers have started to talk about developing teaching skills. Micro teaching is kind
of laboratory approach in which teachers practice their teaching skills that harms no one. This method
is able to meet all conditions of the laboratory.

11.1 History of Micro Teaching

Micro teaching is a new method of controlled practice in the field of training. It was developed at

Stanford University. Acheson, Bush and Allen introduced the first controlled ‘Compressed Study-
Practice Orders’ in which each teacher was teaching a small lesson to 5 to 10 students while others
perform various role plays. Later they started using video tape recorder to make desirable changes
to teaching behavior of a teacher. While working in the field of teaching competence Harry Garrison

introduced ‘Stanford Teaching Competence Program’. In 1967, Clenvas performed many experiments

in the field of micro technology. Thus, Allen (1964), Acheson (1964), Orm (1966), Tuckman, Alan (1969),
Rasnik and Kiss (1970), MacLeez and Anvn (1971) and many researchers made important contributions
in the field. These researches-forms and reports began to attract the whole world. D. D. Tiwari (1967)

first in India used the word ‘Micro-technology’ in the field of education-training. Although the ‘micro

teaching’ means today was isolated from micro teaching. Shah (1970), Chudasma (1971), Singh,
Maskar, Pangutra (1973) and Doshaj undertaken this sector in the year 1974.

The first publication in the field of micro-education in India in 1974 was published by Pasi and Shah. The

first micro-teaching about scientific information provided. Later Bhatacharya (1974), Pasi, Lalita and
Joshi (1976), Singh Garewal (1977) and Gupta (1978) worked in this area. In 1978, a National Proposal
for the Project was started on ‘micro-teaching’ at Indore University. Teachers and educators of various
colleges and universities worked on micro-teaching. This research was completed in cooperation with
Delhi’s ‘National Council of Education, Research and Training’ (NCERT).

In India, research of Micro-teaching is being processed majorly in Delhi, Indore, Baroda,
Saharanpur and Dehradun.

In Dehradun in 1979, Kulshreshtha, Goswami and Mishra working in the field of micro-teaching,
served on many educational reforms as India’s first monograph Mini Teaching A New expirement in

Teacher Education, New Delhi in collaboration with N C E R T published.
Now in India micro-teaching and considerable work is being done on Mini Teaching.

11.2 Definitions of Micro Teaching
Micro-teaching is an experimental and analytical method of education training through which teacher’s

teaching-skills are developed. Allen (1968) defined is as follows: “Micro teaching is training related
suffix in a situation of pre-service and in-service teachers for the commercial development. Micro-

teaching presents a plan for teaching practice that reduces the complexities of normal classroom and
teachers receive feedback in large part for their teaching practice.” V. M. Shore defined is as follow:

“Micro teaching is a practice of small time, few students and of fewer teaching practices.”

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