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Improving teaching through microteaching.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sana, Erlyn Aclan |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Dear Editor, Health professionals acknowledge that their education does not prepare them for teaching. However, society’s increasingly high expectations on health professionals demand that they be taught and trained effectively.1 Health professionals who want to improve their teaching competency can take up microteaching at the National Teacher Training Center for the Health Professions (NTTCHP) at the University of the Philippines. This paper describes the experience of 3 batches of students with regard to how the course affected their delivery skills. This is an action research programme that documented how the teaching competency of students improved after experiencing microteaching. Study samples included classes in the first semester of 2005-2006 (Batch 1 = 9), the second semester of 2002-2003 (Batch 2 = 11) and the second semester of 2000-2001 (Batch 3 = 12). Written and oral (anecdotal) reports and evaluations of students’ performance were used. All data were originally collected as part of the course requirements but were later collated and reviewed for the Third Asia-Pacific Medical Education Conference. All data were analysed qualitatively for patterns, trends and descriptions. Microteaching refers to a “scaled-down teaching encounter designed to develop new skills and refine old ones”.2 It involves a simulated teaching session where students practice-teach in a laboratory that involves a faculty supervisor, the demonstrating teacher, peers, a video supervisor, video recorder and player, and a television monitor. This is consistent with the teach-reteach cycle described by Trott.3 It consists of (1) the briefing phase, (2) the preparation phase,4 (3) the teaching stage, (4) the review by the class and the supervisor and, (5) either preparation for the next session or a reteach of the same skill. The gains in microteaching depend on how the teacher demonstrators reflect and improve on their skills after formal evaluation and personal introspection. |
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| PubMed reference number | 17597976 |
| Volume Number | 36 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Journal | Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
