What Is Microteaching?
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DrNSMani GMC Thrissur
Apr 19, 2009, 9:44:15 AM4/19/09
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What Is Microteaching?
Why microteach?
Microteaching is organized practice teaching. The goal is to give
instructors confidence, support, and feedback by letting them try out
among friends and colleagues a short slice of what they plan to do
with their students. Ideally, microteaching sessions take place before
the first day of class, and are videotaped for review individually
with an experienced teaching consultant. Microteaching is a quick,
efficient, proven, and fun way to help teachers get off to a strong
start.
Online document: TFs talk about microteaching.
How to microteach.
As many as six teachers from the same or similar courses can
participate in a single microteaching session. Course heads, a few
experienced instructors, and a Bok Center staff member are usually
invited to serve as facilitators. While one person takes his or her
turn as teacher, everyone else plays the roles of students. It is the
job of these pretend pupils to ask and answer questions realistically.
It is the job of the pretend teacher to involve his or her "class"
actively in this way.
Such a scenario typically runs for five to ten minutes. When finished,
the person conducting the class has a moment or two to react to his or
her own teaching. Then everyone else joins in to discuss what they saw
that they especially liked. Finally, the group may mention just a few
things that the practice teacher might try doing differently in the
future.
Like all Bok Center tapes, videos of these sessions are for the
benefit of those taped and will not be seen by anyone else without the
explicit permission of the practice teacher. Session tapes can even be
erased immediately if the practice teacher wishes. Nearly everyone,
however, finds it extremely helpful to make an appointment to view and
discuss their tape together with a Bok Center consultant.
What to prepare.
Most course heads provide microteachers with scenarios to prepare in
advance. If not, think of a few minutes of material that you
especially would like to make sure your students understand by the end
of your next class. As always, you should not only plan out how to
treat the subject matter, but also give some thought to how you are
going to present yourself, manage the class, and involve the students.
There are, of course, many different ways of teaching a given lesson
well. That is why participants find that, along with what they learn
from their own experience practice teaching, they can also pick up
many helpful ideas from observing fellow microteachers.
Copyright © 2002-2006 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Permission is granted to non-profit educational institutions to print
and distribute this document for internal use provided that the Bok
Center's authorship and copyright are acknowledged.
Derek Bok Center for
Teaching and Learning
Harvard University
Science Center 318
One Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138-2901
Voice: (617) 495-4869 * Fax: (617) 495-3739
http://bokcenter.harvard.edu
Why microteach?
Microteaching is organized practice teaching. The goal is to give
instructors confidence, support, and feedback by letting them try out
among friends and colleagues a short slice of what they plan to do
with their students. Ideally, microteaching sessions take place before
the first day of class, and are videotaped for review individually
with an experienced teaching consultant. Microteaching is a quick,
efficient, proven, and fun way to help teachers get off to a strong
start.
Online document: TFs talk about microteaching.
How to microteach.
As many as six teachers from the same or similar courses can
participate in a single microteaching session. Course heads, a few
experienced instructors, and a Bok Center staff member are usually
invited to serve as facilitators. While one person takes his or her
turn as teacher, everyone else plays the roles of students. It is the
job of these pretend pupils to ask and answer questions realistically.
It is the job of the pretend teacher to involve his or her "class"
actively in this way.
Such a scenario typically runs for five to ten minutes. When finished,
the person conducting the class has a moment or two to react to his or
her own teaching. Then everyone else joins in to discuss what they saw
that they especially liked. Finally, the group may mention just a few
things that the practice teacher might try doing differently in the
future.
Like all Bok Center tapes, videos of these sessions are for the
benefit of those taped and will not be seen by anyone else without the
explicit permission of the practice teacher. Session tapes can even be
erased immediately if the practice teacher wishes. Nearly everyone,
however, finds it extremely helpful to make an appointment to view and
discuss their tape together with a Bok Center consultant.
What to prepare.
Most course heads provide microteachers with scenarios to prepare in
advance. If not, think of a few minutes of material that you
especially would like to make sure your students understand by the end
of your next class. As always, you should not only plan out how to
treat the subject matter, but also give some thought to how you are
going to present yourself, manage the class, and involve the students.
There are, of course, many different ways of teaching a given lesson
well. That is why participants find that, along with what they learn
from their own experience practice teaching, they can also pick up
many helpful ideas from observing fellow microteachers.
Copyright © 2002-2006 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Permission is granted to non-profit educational institutions to print
and distribute this document for internal use provided that the Bok
Center's authorship and copyright are acknowledged.
Derek Bok Center for
Teaching and Learning
Harvard University
Science Center 318
One Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138-2901
Voice: (617) 495-4869 * Fax: (617) 495-3739
http://bokcenter.harvard.edu
Prithi Nair
Apr 19, 2009, 11:56:59 AM4/19/09
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Good on microteaching--
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