A study of impact of micro-teaching and multimedia on B.ED. students

Teaching requires immense practice of the basic teaching skills and also the dynamic ways through which it can be made interesting and effective at the same time. Micro-teaching is a concept wherein a detailed separate teaching skill is trained by the student for a short span of time with the objective that the students will gain perfection of that particular skill. Multimedia is very useful in making the teaching learning process very interesting and innovative. Microteaching and multimedia are important components of training the basic teaching skills with creativity. In this paper, we are trying to study the impact of micro-teaching and multimedia on teaching skills of B.Ed. Students and also their perception regarding its significance and its impact on their own teaching skills. The sample of the study was 100B.Ed. Students selected randomly from Five B.Ed. Institutes of Delhi. The findings indicate that there was a high positive impact of micro-teaching and multimedia on the teaching skills of B.Ed. students and thus are indeed very important in teaching and training of teaching skills.