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Unit-11: Micro Teaching

(3) Teaching is a therapeutic procedure or plan. Notes
(4) Teaching-objective observation of actions is required for best training.
(5) Teachers must be given adequate opportunity to improve.
(6) Teaching process can be upgraded by improving individual’s teaching skills.

(7) Micro-teaching is a very small and simplified form of teaching.

11.4 Principles of Micro Teaching

Allen and Ryan (1968) explained that micro teaching is based on the following five basic principles:
(1) Micro-teaching is the actual teaching.
(2) In this type of teaching the common complications class-education is reduced.
(3) Only a special task and a skill are emphasized at one time.
(4) Exercise procedure is more controlled.
(5) Feedback is provided soon.

11.5 Micro Teaching: An Educational Process

It is a scaled down teaching technique, scaled down in terms of class size, lession, length and teaching
complexity.
Micro teaching process contains the following terms—
(1) Teacher offers practical knowledge and principle of micro teaching to pupil teachers. It is known as
Introduction session.
(2) Teacher specifically states the teaching skills which are to be developed and interpretation of

psychological bases to pupil teacher.
(3) Teacher presents an ideal lesson on micro teaching for pupil teacher.
(4) Teacher and pupil teacher closely analyze the shortcomings and discuss the characteristics of the
ideal text and determine its learning–skills.
(5) Teacher provides pupil teacher the needed time to prepare ‘micro-lesson plan’ and assists them
personally.
(6) According to instruction, class teacher teaches micro-lesson for 5 to 15 minutes (The lesson is recorded
on a tape recorder), it is called teaching session.
(7) After teaching class teacher discusses the micro lesson with teacher in detail. Both good and bad
point viz. shortcomings and strengths of pupil teacher’s teaching skills are discussed at this time
and he is suggested to re-prepare the lesson.
(8) After this critical session, pupil-teacher changes the teaching plan according to the
recommendations and re-teach the necessary amendments. This is known as “session of
re-creation of lesson”.
(9) Thus pupil teacher teaches the re-created lesson to other students of the class. This teaching is also
recorded on tape recorder. It is called re-teaching session.
(10) Re-criticise session come after re-teaching session.
The micro teaching process can be explained as on next page—

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