Question

Which of the following is the technique used to master teaching skills among student teachers?
1. Observation
2. Tutoring
3. Micro teaching
4. Keller plan

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Micro teaching

• Microteaching is an innovative method of training wherein the teacher trainee or a student-teacher conducts a class for a small group of students for a small time.22 
• It is a teacher training programme, where student teachers enrich their teaching skills through practice teaching and scaling down the class size, duration of period, teaching skill, size of the topic and under controlled conditions.
• This is intended to enhance the skills of teachers.
• By focusing on a specific skill at one time, this approach has proved to be beneficial.

• The basics of micro-teaching revolve around the six ideas given below. 

• Plan
• Teach 
• Observe
• Re-plan
• Re-teach 
• Re-observe​

•  A classroom observation is an act of watching a teacher's performance in their classroom or learning environment. Classroom observations are a quantitative way of recording and measuring teacher behavior and mastery by systematically watching and recording them in action. It can used to learn the skills of teaching and classroom management but one cannot master the skills just by observation.
• Tutoring is private academic support, usually provided by an expert teacher; someone with deep knowledge or defined expertise in a particular subject or set of subjects. A tutor is a private teacher who tutors individual students in one-on-one lessons or small group classes. Tutoring is generally unplanned and confined to subject matter only.
• The Keller Plan is a personalized learning method in which students receive material in small units. When they are ready, they take a test on the unit they have just completed. If they pass, they then move onto the next unit.