1980 Volume 4 Issue 3 Pages 113-126
Student teachers frequently have difficulty transferring into practice their knowledge of.textbook recipes and verbal description of model teacher behaviour, one explanation for their difficulty is that the courses in teacher training are mainly organized as a body of tbeoretical abstract principles and so there is little opportunity in campus for a student himselfto integrate the gap between theory and performance. To solve this problem, we have developed and tried a program of teacbing practices joined microteaching and formal student teaching together in Japan. In this course student teachers learned and received training about some basic procedures of design and analysis in teaching-learning processes, teaching skill of questioning and dealing with pupil's answer, and microteaching. The program was evaluated in aspects of instruc-tional behaviour, teaching skilland in the opinion of student teachers. In the result, it was shown that the program tends to・the improvement of attaining teaching skill.
