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Notes MacLeez and Unwin (1970), “The micro-teaching student teachers usually simplified by the use of

television closed environment for the process of the performance-related feedback is immediately
available ..... Micro teaching is generally considered to be the nature of the study represented
complications typically abstract concept or actual reduction to practice reading the feedback process on
the basis of classroom teaching is provided”.
According to D. W. Allen, “Micro-teaching is scaled down teaching encounter in class size and class time.”
According to Clift and Others, “Micro-teaching is a training procedure which reduces the teaching
situation to a simpler and more controlled encounter achieved by limiting the practice teaching to a

specific skill and reducing time and size.”
According to Bush, “Micro-teaching is a training procedure in which teacher prepares a lesson by
using his teaching skills carefully, interact with a small group of actual students on the basis of lesions
prepared. As a result he gets the opportunity to achieve observations on videotape.” (In the Indian
Model of Micro technology, human observers has been recommended to replace video tape.)
Allen and Ryan said that micro teaching is based on the following five basic principles:

(1) Micro-teaching is the actual teaching.
(2) In this teaching of the common complications class-education is reduced.
(3) Only a special task and a skill is emphasized at one time.
(4) It is possible to control to exercise procedure.
(5) Feedback is provided soon.
In the words of Prof. B.K. Passi “Micro-teaching is a training technique which requires pupil-teacher to reach

a single concept using a specified teaching skill to a small number of pupils in a short duration of time.”
In the words of L.C. Singh “Micro-teaching is a scaled down teaching encounter to which a teacher

teaches a small unit to a group of five pupils for a small period of five to twenty minutes.”
Micro Teaching is by N.K Jangira and Ajit Singh: “Micro-teaching is a training setting for the student
teacher whose complexities of the normal classroom reaching are reduced by practising one component
skill at a time, limiting the content to a single concept, reducing the class size to 5-10 pupils and reducing
the content of the lesion to 5-10 minutes for teaching practice.”
According to Srivastava, Singh and Roy (1978), “The meaning of the word Micro can be a complex one
because it divided into small means micro units in which teacher is trained very carefully. Therefore,
Micro is the correct word.”
Grifi ths (1973) after analyzing the various definitions says, “As Micro-teaching is very fl exible and

adaptable process, it is not fair to bind it in a specifi c defi nition”.

Micro teaching is a developing trend under which content, teaching-time and
teachers are reduced while teaching skills of pupils teachers are very well
developed. (Dr Kulshrestha, 1979)

11.3 Assumptions of Micro Teaching

The basic assumptions of Micro teaching are—
(1) Teacher’s behaviour pattern is necessary for effective micro teaching.
(2) Motivation plays a critical role in the transformation of the expected behaviour.

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