EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Microteaching dates back to the early 1960s, when Dwight Allen and his Stanford University colleagues created a training programme targeted at improving teachers’ verbal and non-verbal communication skills. The Stanford methodology consisted of three steps: teach, review and reflect, re-teach.

Detailed explanation-2: -Micro-teaching was invented in 1963 at Stanford University by Dwight W. Allen, and has subsequently been used to develop educators in all forms of education.

Detailed explanation-3: -While in India, first attempt was made in 1974 to spread micro-teaching. Micro-teaching is defined as an effective technique to train the inexperienced teacher in the art of teaching. It reduces the complexities of real (actual) classroom teaching in terms of class-size, time-duration and content.

Detailed explanation-4: -After some time it was Dwight Allen (1963) of Stanford University who coined the term Micro-Teaching. In India it was introduced by D.D. Tiwari in 1967 of Government Central Pedagogical Institute Allahabad.

Detailed explanation-5: -A micro teaching cycle is a controlled process that comprises a small unit of content (usually a single topic) being taught to a small group of students (usually peers playing the role of students) in a short period of time (usually 5-7 minutes).