Microteaching: Attitude and perception of Students and Teacher Educators

Microteaching is a compulsory part of any teacher’s training program to be taken before a student is allowed to go for the practice teaching. This indicates the importance of microteaching to prepare the future teacher trainees to teach in school. However, there are some modification in the practices of microteaching according to situations. This research had been carried out to investigate the attitude and perception of B.Ed. and M.Ed. students and teacher educators in Darbhanga district. 150 students from the B.Ed. and M.Ed. course and 10 teacher educators were chosen to become the respondents of this study. These respondents had involved in their microteaching course and had done their teaching practice in their training. Each respondent was asked to rate a set of statements (Rating Scale) consisted of 55 items regarding the microteaching experience. The findings of the study indicated that the students of both courses have high level of perception towards microteaching. They considered microteaching very useful for their prospective teaching. Teacher educators also had a positive attitude and perception towards microteaching but some teacher had low attitude and perception.