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Micro Teaching

Microteaching is a teacher training technique that provides opportunities for teachers to improve their teaching skills. It involves scaling down the complexity of real teaching through shorter lessons, fewer students, and immediate feedback. This allows teachers to plan, teach, receive feedback, and reteach. Microteaching has been shown to increase teaching skills and confidence for both new and experienced teachers. It is widely used in medical education to train teachers, as traditional methods are not adequate. Microteaching allows teachers to learn and practice individual teaching skills. Its implementation in medical schools provides teachers an opportunity to improve and ensures their continued effective performance.

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Micro Teaching

Microteaching is a teacher training technique that provides opportunities for teachers to improve their teaching skills. It involves scaling down the complexity of real teaching through shorter lessons, fewer students, and immediate feedback. This allows teachers to plan, teach, receive feedback, and reteach. Microteaching has been shown to increase teaching skills and confidence for both new and experienced teachers. It is widely used in medical education to train teachers, as traditional methods are not adequate. Microteaching allows teachers to learn and practice individual teaching skills. Its implementation in medical schools provides teachers an opportunity to improve and ensures their continued effective performance.

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Abstract

Microteaching, a teacher training technique currently practiced worldwide, provides teachers an


opportunity to perk up their teaching skills by improving the various simple tasks called teaching skills.
With the proven success among the novice and seniors, microteaching helps to promote real-time
teaching experiences. The core skills of microteaching such as presentation and reinforcement skills help
the novice teachers to learn the art of teaching at ease and to the maximum extent. The impact of this
technique has been widely seen in various forms of education such as health sciences, life sciences, and
other areas. The emerging changes in medical curricula by the Medical Council of India and the role of
medical teachers envisage the need of this special training of teachers and monitoring of their skills for
their continued efficient performance at any age. The alleged limitations of microteaching can be
minimized by implementing this at the departmental level in several sequences. The author made
literature search of research and review articles in various educational databases, journals, and books.
From the reference list of published articles, books were also reviewed. This paper presents an outline
of the various phases of microteaching, core teaching skills, implementation aspects, and the impact of
microteaching on medical education.

Keywords: Microteaching, medical education, teacher training, teaching skills, teach-re teach

INTRODUCTION

The art of teaching does not merely involve a simple transfer of knowledge from one to other. Instead, it
is a complex process that facilitates and influences the process of learning. Quality of a teacher is
estimated on how much the students understand from his/her teaching. The classrooms cannot be used
as a learning platform for acquiring primary teaching skills. Training of medical teachers in specific
teaching skills is a major challenge in medical education programs. The pedagogic skill for teaching can
be acquired only through more structured and cheaper faculty training techniques. With the
introduction of microteaching about five decades ago, the lacunae of scientifically proven or effective
methods to be followed in teacher training programs has been overcome.

The aim of this article is to emphasize the need for using microteaching techniques more frequently and
efficiently with minimum available facilities. A systematic literature search of research articles and
reviews was undertaken from various educational databases. From the reference lists of published
articles, books available were also reviewed.

MICROTEACHING
Definition and basic concepts

Microteaching is a teacher training technique for learning teaching skills. It employs real teaching
situation for developing skills and helps to get deeper knowledge regarding the art of teaching. This
Stanford technique involved the steps of “plan, teach, observe, re-plan, re-teach and re-observe” and
has evolved as the core component in 91% of on-campus clinical teaching development programs, with
the significant reduction in the teaching complexities with respect to number of students in a class,
scope of content, and timeframe, etc. Most of the pre-service teacher education programs widely use
microteaching, and it is a proven method to attain gross improvement in the instructional experiences.
Effective student teaching should be the prime quality of a teacher. As an innovative method of
equipping teachers to be effective, skills and practices of microteaching have been implemented.

Efficient technique and effective teaching

Microteaching can be practiced with a very small lesson or a single concept and a less number of
students. It scales down the complexities of real teaching, as immediate feedback can be sought after
each practice session. The modern-day multimedia equipment such as audio–video recording devices
have a key role in the learning process.

Observing a fellow teacher and using a trial-and-error in own teaching sessions are very common way of
self-training. But, both of them have their own demerits. On the other hand, microteaching helps in
eliminating errors and builds stronger teaching skills for the beginners and senior teachers.
Microteaching increases the self-confidence, improves the in-class teaching performances, and develops
the classroom management skills.

Microteaching in medical education

The traditional medical teaching emphasizes on the transmission of factual knowledge and hence, the
teachers are the main source of information. But, the conventional methods of medical teacher training
are not adequate. So, the teaching objectives have now shifted to the student centered, measurable,
achievable, relevant, and timely concept. Microteaching allows learning each skill to the maximum
extent as there is a chance of listening, observing, and practicing.

Implementation of microteaching in medical education

There was an increase in interests toward introducing microteaching techniques in the Indian medical
schools. This training technique provides medical teachers an excellent opportunity to improve their
teaching skills and follows the Skinners’ theory of operant conditioning and also has a scientific basis.
The Medical Council of India has also recommended training for medical teachers for their continued,
efficient performance in that capacity at any age. It is widely accepted that the quality and competency
of medical teachers can be improved by effective medical education training programs.

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