Microteaching was a concept that was created back in the 1960s at Stanford University and is regarded as a teacher training technique that is the one being practiced worldwide. The method is more used to perk up their teaching skills and improve them. Studies have also been conducted everywhere, worldwide, which provides teachers with an opportunity for the same and has been proven to promote real-time teaching experiences. It is also core skills like reinforcement and presentation skills that help teachers and provide them with a certain amount of ease and up to a maximum extent. 

Many still are confused and are not aware of the real art of teaching. Let us clear a bit for all our readers the same. Education is not just about delivering some content or a simple transfer of knowledge from an educator to their student or from one person to another, if we talk generally. It is a lot more than just simply the above. It is more of a complex process, where, yes, Knowledge transfer is one aspect, but it is not covering the actual art. It is a complex process that influences and facilitates the process of learning. 

Whenever one has to assess a teacher's or an educator's performance, it is often calculated or estimated by how much the students understand from the transfer of knowledge. It is the students only who assess quality at teaching. Microteaching employs real teaching situations for developing skills and getting a deeper understanding of the art. It is a process that can be practiced with a tiny lesson or with a single concept that has to be given or delivered teacher in a limited time. It deals with six steps overall, and starts from basically the planning, then teaching, feedback, Re-planning, Reteaching, and Refeedback. From the mentioned steps itself, the concept should become very clear in the reader's minds: what sort of process is Microteaching and how is it continuously operated to give in quality at teaching as satisfaction at learning from the other way around. 

Technological advances and Micro-teaching 

Technologies affect us in every way and everything. People are working, progressing, and inventing new tools and technologies every hour to make human lives much more comforting and better. The education sector is the boon of technology only, which had revived and prevented the system from becoming crippled overall when pandemic caused educational institutions and world-class education centers to close their respective campuses overnight. 

Microteaching also involves modern-day multimedia equipment or tools like audio-visuals which play a pivotal role in online teaching. It could also scale down the complexities by applying and regulating feedbacks. 

Below we will be pointing out various advantages that the concept of "Micro-teaching" holds. 

Advantages of "Micro-teaching"

• Improves teaching skills and quality teaching by being practically oriented. 
• Boosts up confidence in young professionals in teaching 
• Teachers, through modern technologies, can experiment with new techniques without risking anything for students. 
• Practical feedback features and self-reflective learning are encouraged through Micro-teaching. 
• Encourages and apprehends positive criticism which too in a proper way, and could therefore improve the teacher's teaching skills without being discouraged and becomes more confident and effective at teaching with time. 

Objectives of Micro-teaching 

The objectives of micro-teaching simultaneously deal with providing appropriate techniques for providing skill training and also to scale down the complexities associated with the art of teaching. 

Conclusion

Micro Teaching is a technique that is much in common practice these days. People who get themselves enrolled into a course through online teaching sites in Indiaor elsewhere witness this technique of knowledge delivery. Still, they are not very sure about what exactly is "Micro-teaching."