Micro Teaching

What is NOT micro teaching?

• A set of teaching steps

• A teaching-simulation exercise with immediate supportive feedback

• A teacher training concept

• Does not prepare teacher candidates for the real classroom setting

Which of the following is Micro -teaching

• Consists of a small group of 6 to 10 students.

• The teacher practices several skills at a time.

• Immediate feed-back is not available

• There is no control over situation

Which of the following are not Skills of Micro teaching Techniques

• Skill of Probing Questions

• Introduction Skill

• Drawing Skill

• Skill of Achieving Closure

The following are the characteristics of teaching topics for micro-teaching BUT

• relevant to your discipline

• a lesson you might teach early in the semester

• narrow and small-scale

• A paper you’ve written for a conference

The following are advantages of micro-teaching except

• It focuses on sharpening and developing specific teaching skills and eliminating errors.

• It enables understanding of behaviours important in class-room teaching.

• It provides experts supervision and constructive feedback.

• It decreases the confidence of the learner teacher.