Student Teacher Perception of Microteaching in Developing Skills for Teaching: A Case of Selected Groups of Third Year Students: School of Education, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya

The main purpose of this study was to explore student teacher perception of microteaching in developing teaching skills among third year Bachelor of Education students at the university level. At this level all students are expected to attend a microteaching course where they are trained on requisite teaching skills. In preparation for this student teachers attend common lectures on teaching skills followed by a practical sessions where each and every individual must participate under the guidance of a supervisor. The objectives of the study to determine the components of preliminary preparations student teachers were exposed to before micro-teaching, to determine student teacher perception on preliminary preparation and use of selected skills, to explore how student teachers utilized selected skills before and during micro teaching and to determine the impact of microteaching on student teachers performance on preparation and utilization on selected skill. The participants comprised of (320) three hundred and twenty participants from four groups selected to represent the undergraduate students from Moi University, School of Education. aThe study was an action research a case type of research and it adopted a mixed method approach where qualitative and quantitative techniques were used to collect the data. Instruments used to collect data included questionnaire, interview and content analysis. The results showed that a number of student teachers did not attend common lectures although it was a requirement. On the development and use of selected graphics a number of them either prepared and used or not used. Most of them believed micro teaching method gave a chance to evaluate their strong and weak aspects in teaching, they achieved various skills although they were candid on the challenges they faced and finally reported that if each one of them were addressed with the help of the supervisor and peers this would go a long way to improve in micro teaching.