POSITIVE ASPECTS OF MICRO TEACHING.
The advantages of micro teaching to the student teacher ams teacher education program in Nigeria and the whole world at large can not be over estimated and so it is summarized into the following:-
1. It equips the trainee teacher with an array of teaching skills, competencies and self confidence for practicing as a trained teacher.
2. It creates an opportunity for the student teacher to practice teaching in a little or no stress and tension environment, unlike the teaching practice where the supervisor to-toad into the classroom of 50 or more students.
3. Micro teaching bridges the gap between theory and practice because there are ample opportunities for the trainee to practicalise all the knowledge gained from theories learned in sociology, psychology and philosophy of education.
4. It provides for critique, analysis and immediate feedback on teaching performance from peer group, supervisor and micro teaching gadgets. The trainee teacher appreciates its weaknesses and strengths for immediate corrections.
5. Micro teaching provides trainee teacher the opportunity to practice real lesson without the complexities of a normal classroom situation.
6. It offers the trainee teacher opportunity to acquire a repertoire of teaching skills that will make him or her flexible and competent in a variety of teaching-learning situations.
7. It helps trainee acquaint himself or herself with classroom dressing code, ethic, manners, blackboard writing and precise technical terms useful to the teacher as a professional.
8. It helps prevent the students from being subjected to poor teaching pedagogies by student teachers during teaching exercise.