Micro teaching; It provides opportunities to help teachers demonstrate their basic teaching skills, learn about their performance and improve their teaching skills in a short time. In micro teaching, a less risky environment is provided where they can test their knowledge and skills used in teaching and develop them by getting feedback from experts before placing the teaching professions or prospective teachers in the complex structure of the real classroom environment. In this way, prospective teachers gain teaching experience.
The main purpose of micro-teaching is to “give it feedback to the students and peers and the experts” to develop the teaching methods used by the teacher candidates or teachers. Teacher can observe and comment on the points teacher needs to improve. Also, teaching profession is the profession required by public speaking and communication skills. Therefore, the use of teachers' clothing, appearance, diction, and body language are factors that affect student content, teaching method and teacher perception. Thus, these skills are developed with micro teaching method.
Also, I prefer to evaluate rapport with students from peers' observations. I think it's one of the most useful feedbacks. Because first of all, communication and addressing with the students in the classroom are very important. Thanks to these feedbacks, the teacher candidate realizes his deficiencies in this subject and develops himself. The most accurate and easy learning takes place in a healthy classroom environment. Therefore, the approach of the teacher to the student is very important. I noticed the shortcomings in myself through micro teaching and I am trying to improve them. I had an experience in communicating with students in the classroom and this increased my self-confidence. In this way, I think I will have less difficulty in the real classroom environment. Therefore, the fact that your classmates or peers give feedback to you in cooperation with the teachers can have a negative effect as well as a positive criticism. Because feedback from your peers may not be objective. This situation may cause you to lose your self-confidence. Also, this situation may cause teacher candidates to feel insufficient in the real classroom environment.
To sum up, peers who observe should take note about the points to be given feedback without interfering with the teacher candidate by watching the live performance of the teacher candidate using the teaching method and examining in the video. In my opinion, the most sensitive point in this method is to be feedback neutral and sincere in criticism.
