Micro-Teaching-16-12-14 (Hasnah)
Micro-Teaching-16-12-14 (Hasnah)
PRKA3012
Week 2, 3 & 4
Mdm Hasnah Razali
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What is Teaching?
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What is learning & How learning
happens? .:
Learning Knowledge acquired by study.
Learning happens and knowledge is
generated.
There is a famous saying:
I hear I forget;
I see I remember;
I do I understand.
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How learning happens? .:
We remember ..
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How learning happens? .:
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Changes in Student Role
A shift from: A shift to:
1. Passive recipient of 1. Active participant in the
information. learning process.
2. Producing and sharing
knowledge,
2. Reproducing
participating at times as
knowledge. expert.
3. Learning collaboratively
3. Learning as a with others
solitary activity
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Microteaching
Dr. Allen and his group evolved
Microteaching in 1963 in America.
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What is Microteaching?
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.)
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Micro teaching
A method of teacher training/ teaching
technique, .
1. PLAN 2. TEACH
6. RE-FEEDBACK 3. FEEDBACK
5. RE-TEACH 4. RE-PLAN
I. PLANNING
Selection of a particular skill
Presentation of a model
demonstration lesson- a
particular skill
Observation of the model lesson
Criticism of the model lesson
Preparation of the micro lesson
plan
II. TEACHING
OBSERVATION OF TEACHING SKILL
Peer/college Supervisors
Ratings based on frequencies
Can be recorded in a tape recorder or
on a videotape
Coding Proforma Skill of Stimulus Variation
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
Component minute minute minute minute minute minute
s 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30
sec sec sec sec se se se se se se se se
c c c c c c c c
Teacher
Movement
Teacher
Gestures
Change in
Speech
Patterns
Shifting
Sensory
Focus
Pause
Others
(Specify)
III. Feedback
Individual feedback to student
teachers.
Include the tallies and ratings on
observation schedule
Interpretation about the
performance.
Microteaching Setting
1. Time
a. Teach 5 Minutes
b. Feedback 5 Minutes
c. Re-Plan 10 Minutes
d. Re-Teach 5 Minutes
e. Re-Feedback 5 Minutes
30 Minutes
2. No. of student teachers in a >10
group
3. Supervisor(s) 1 or 2
4. Feedback by the peer supervisor(s)
Teaching Skills - by
B.K.Passi
1. Writing instructional 8. Silence and non-verbal
objectives cues.
2. Introducing a lesson 9. Reinforcement
3. Fluency in questioning 10. Increasing pupil
4. Probing questions participation
5. Explaining 11. Using black-board
6. Illustrating with 12. Achieving closure
examples 13. Recognising attending
7. Stimulus Variation behaviour
TEACHING SKILLS
PLANNING STAGE Writing instructional objectives
Organizing the content
Questions
Introductory or Developing
preliminary questions Questions
Evaluating or Testing
Recaptulatory questions
Questions
Skill of Questioning
Levels of questions
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Comparison Between Micro Teaching and Traditional
Teaching
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Contd
Traditional Teaching Micro teaching
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Skills of Micro teaching Techniques
1. Introduction Skill
2. Skill of Probing Questions
3. Skill of Explanation
4. Skill of Stimulus Variation
5. Skill of Black-board Writing
6. Skill of Achieving Closure
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1. Introduction Skill:
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Questioning and
Reinforcement Skills:
PURPOSE OF QUESTIONING SKILLS:
To increase the students participation in
their teaching-learning interaction
To arouse the students interest and their
curiosity in the topic they are learning
To develop the students active way of
thinking and learning
To guide the students in the process of
finding agood and correct answer
To help the students concentrate on the topic
under discussion.
Questioning and Reinforcement
Skills:
PURPOSE OF REINFORCEMENT SKILLS:
To help the teacher show a positive
feedback to the students or to help
communicate the teachers
approvals/disapprovals towards the
students, resulting in the students
feeling reinforced to participate more
actively and better in the teaching-
learning interaction
HOW?
Different types of questions
1. Compliance 8. Analysis Questions
Questions 9. Synthesis Questions
2. Rhetorical Questions 10. Evaluation
3. Prompting Questions
Questions 11. Narrow Questions
4. Probing Questions (Direct Narrow
5. Recall/Knowledge Questions and Centered
questions Narrow Questions)
6. Comprehension 12. Broad Questions
Questions (Open Ended and
7. Application Valuing Questions)
Questions
Important Factors in
Questioning Skills
1. Clarity and Relevance
2. Speed and Pauses
3. Distribution of Questions
4. Reinforcement Techniques
5. Prompting and Probing
Types of Reinforcement
Verbal reinforcement
Non-verbal reinforcement
Notes:
A student is an individual and may be
different in his/her perception of the
reinforcement; so, different reinforcement
may be needed for different students
A reinforcement is highly effective only if it is
used at the right time and the right place;
too much repetitive reinforcement may
result in the loss of its effectiveness as the
motivating factor
3. Skill of Explanation
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4. Skill of Stimulus Variation
Teacher movement
Teacher gestures
Change in voice
Focusing
Change in the interaction pattern
Pausing
Students physical participation
5. Skill of Black-board Writing
Components of the skill of blackboard writing are:
i. Legibility
ii. Size and alignment
iii. Highlighting main points
iv. Utilization of the space
v. Blackboard summary
vi. Correctness
vii. Position of the teacher and
viii. Contact with the pupils.
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Blackboard Writing Skills
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Blackboard Writing Skills
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Blackboard Writing Skills
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Blackboard Writing Skills
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6. Skill of Achieving Closure
Questions and statements by the teacher related to
the consolidation of the major points covered during
the lesson.
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Advantages Of Microteaching
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SUMMARY
Microteaching involves presentation of
micro lesson.
Audience.small group of peers.
Feedback given by peers role playing as
students.
Participants learn about strengths &
weakness in themselves as teachers.
Plan strategies for improvement in
performance.
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Why teaching profession is good?
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Remember!!!
Even the best teacher
can learn a great deal
from his or her students
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A GOOD TEACHER IS TEXT
BOOK + PERSONALITY
Sir Joseph
Bancroft
Knowing is a
process, NOT a
product
Bruner
Secret
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Need of the hour
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Present Teacher Expected Teacher
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Mediocre teacher
tells
Good teacher
explains
Superior teacher
illustrates
TUTORIAL TASK
1.In groups of 2/3 students, carry out
the lesson given. Each student is to
select a stage of the lesson and
implement it. watch and review a video
on language teaching and learning
(T&L) .
2.Choose any stages of the T&L process
and provide
comments/suggestions/ways to improve
the T&L process using the given micro
teaching feedback forms.
Thank you
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