MICROTEACHING IN TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES IN NIGERIA

Microteaching and teaching practice are dual integral parts of teacher education programmes. in Universities in Nigeria. Microteaching is useful in improving the teaching skills, classroom management, confidence etc of teacher trainees. The study therefore, dwelt on the routine teacher trainees go through in the course of microteaching and recommended that micro-teaching should be maintained in undergraduate teacher training programmes, and should be made a pre-requisite to teaching practice. There should be a provision of immediate feedback for improvement of teaching through the use of video recorders and players in recording the performance of trainee – teachers during microteaching exercise. This is done during playback, which enables the trainee – teachers to observe their performance in the areas of weakness.