The Effect of Microteaching On Pre-Service Chemistry Teachers’ Teaching Experiences

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of microteaching on teaching experiences of pre-service chemistry teachers. The research which was a one-group pretest-posttest design study was conducted with 31 pre-service chemistry teachers in a state university in Turkey in 2009-2010 fall semesters. The data of the research was collected by using self-evaluation, group evaluation, peer-evaluation, researchers’ evaluations, observer evaluation together with students’ self-reflective essays and feedback forms. The data obtained from this study shows that pre-service chemistry teachers lack skills related to teaching experience before applying microteaching. Also the results of this study show that microteaching contributed to the development of communication skills performance, illustrated talk performance, and process skill lesson performance of the pre-service teachers. Moreover, pre-service chemistry teachers realized the deficiencies in their chemistry teaching practices and overcame them, emphasized the relationship between chemistry and daily life more, became more aware of students’ misconceptions about chemistry topics due to the microteaching technique.

Keywords

• Microteaching,Teaching experience,Pre-service chemistry teacher

Kimya Öğretmen Adaylarının Öğretim Becerilerine Mikroöğretimin Etkisi

Abstract

Bu araştırmanın amacı, kimya öğretmen adaylarının öğretim becerileri üzerine mikro öğretimin etkisini incelemektir. Tek grup öntest-sontest deseninde olan bu çalışma, 2009-2010 güz döneminde Türkiye’deki bir devlet üniversitesinde öğrenim gören 31 kimya öğretmen adayı ile yürütüldü. Araştırmanın verileri; öz-değerlendirme, grup değerlendirme, akran değerlendirme, araştırmacı değerlendirmeleri ve gözlemci değerlendirmeleri ile öğrenci dönüt formları ile toplandı. Çalışma grubundan elde edilen veriler, öğretmen adaylarının uygulamadan önce öğretim deneyimleriyle ilgili becerilerinde eksiklikler olduğunu göstermektedir. Ayrıca, bu çalışmanın sonuçları mikro öğretimin, öğretmen adaylarının iletişim becerileri performansı, gösterim ve sunum performansı ve dersle ilgili süreç becerisi performansının gelişmesinde katkı sağladığını ortaya koymaktadır.

Keywords

• Mikroöğretim,Öğretim deneyimi,Kimya öğretmen adayı

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