Design and Evaluation of Microteaching: Emergent Learning for
Acquiring Classroom Management Skill in Teacher Education
Dai Sakuma
1a
, Keitaro Tokutake
2b
and Masao Murota
3c
1
Faculty of Teacher Education, Shumei University, 1-1 Daigaku-cho, Yachiyo-shi, Chiba, Japan
2
School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
3
Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Keywords: Emergent Learning, Classroom Management, Microteaching, Teacher’s Knowledge, Adaptive Teaching.
Abstract: Schools in countries struggling with academic achievement gaps need to improve the teaching and support
skills for students who facilitate classes in these gaps. This study focused on methods for acquiring complex
classroom management skills for pre-service teachers. The aim of the study was to design and validate a
method for teacher candidates to learn these behaviors. To achieve this, microteaching sessions in which
unexpected behaviors occur were designed and carried out. A video recording of the microteaching was used
in the evaluation experiment. Evaluators were five expert teachers in Japan. Statistical tests using the results
of the questionnaire responses revealed that the simulated situations by student roles were close to actual
situations with real students. It was also confirmed that the teaching candidates experienced situations that
required various management behaviors. These results indicate that the microteaching sessions designed by
the authors are useful as a method for emergent learning to achieve management skills in the classroom to
control unexpected behaviors.
1 INTRODUCTION
Many countries have recognized inclusive education,
but its definitions and implementations vary widely
(Haug, 2017). In countries with large achievement
gaps, students who struggle to follow teachers’
instructions are often labeled as exhibiting
“unexpected behavior”.
Emergent learning, where preservice teachers
respond flexibly to students’ needs, is crucial for
effective classroom management and enhances
educational quality. It requires not only planned
lessons but also improvisation to engage students.
Microteaching has been a method to train
prospective teachers by allowing them to practice
teaching skills in a controlled environment (Allen
1966; Sakamoto 1981; Sakuma et al. 2019). This
technique helps improve skills such as attention
management, questioning, and class control (Gower
et al., 1995; Capel et al., 1998; Kilic, 2010). The
Learner-Centred Microteaching (LCMT) model
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https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3638-8229
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https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1099-5518
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https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9727-3096
involves decision-making, planning, application,
evaluation, and reflection, and is used to help teachers
learn emergent management skills (Kilic, 2010).
However, there are limited examples of emergent
learning in microteaching, especially regarding
management procedures and behaviors for
unexpected behavior. Microteaching can teach
emergent behaviors that prevent unexpected
classroom disruptions. Research on teachers’
decision-making and information processing is
important in this context (Pittman, 1985; Yoshizaki,
1988).
To design learning in a simulated classroom, it’s
important to consider teachers’ information
processing and decision-making models. Pittman
(1985) identified three strategies teachers use for
management: training, corrective, and push-in.
Yoshizaki (1988) viewed teachers as information
processors who explore routines and adapt to
classroom situations. Some studies have attempted to
approximate the environment of microteaching to that
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DOI: 10.5220/0012942200003838
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Figure 1: Overview of Microteaching Design and Simulation.
of an actual class, enhancing its effectiveness.
Sakuma et al. (2019) developed image cards to assist
pupil roles’ acts in microteaching for this purpose.
This study provides insights into the design and
implementation of microteaching sessions that
incorporate unexpected student behaviors.
2 PURPOSE OF STUDY
2.1 Design of Microteaching
In this study, we developed and evaluated a
microteaching method for prospective teachers to
manage unexpected student behaviors in classroom
settings using Image-cards (Sakuma et al. 2019).
In the microteaching which we designed, teacher-
role extracts the situations of attitudes and behaviors
of the student-role from the classroom situation and
recognizes and discriminates between expected and
non-expected behaviors. The teacher roles
experienced situations by the student role’s behaviors
include delay in learning, interruption of learning,
withdrawal from learning, disturbance to others and
disturbance to the teacher. These categories were
developed by classifying examples of attitudes and
behaviors from Sakuma et al. (2019) image cards. It
is assumed that, depending on the perceived
attitude/behavior situation. The teacher roles then
recognise the discrepancies between the lesson plan
and the actual situation and the factors.
In addition, the teacher role has a learning
opportunity to invoke or create management actions
to resolve the discrepancy between the plan and the
actual situation. Through this learning opportunity,
the teacher role learns management behaviors to
control the unexpected behavior.
Thus, we assume emergent learning, in which the
number of perceived unexpected behaviors, including
disruptive behaviors to the lesson, decision-making
activities related to management are activated, and
the teacher role invokes management behaviors and
creates alternative solutions.
Figure 1 shows that the overview of the student
image cards used in designing the microteaching
(Sakuma et al. 2019). They consisted of three types
based on the degree of 'learning achievement' (A:
high - C: low) and three types based on the degree of
'difficulty in following instruction' (1: easy to follow
- 3: difficult to follow): A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1,
C2, C3. Figure 1 shows the types of image cards used
and the seating arrangements of the student roles
when a microteaching is conducted with nine student
roles.
The microteaching which we designed has system
to make it easy for situations to occur in which student
roles in C1, C2, and C3 are more than half of the total
number of students in the class, and in which they
become noisy and cannot follow instructions.
Specifically, the roles and their number were set up
with reference to the characteristics of a disrupted
class in which more than half of the student roles are
dissatisfied with class life or are unable to comply
with class rules, and in which the roles of student C1,
C2 and C3 are more than half of the total number of
student roles in the class, which can lead to a situation
of withdrawal from class and a situation of general
noisiness and lack of following instructions.
Additionally, place student roles who are difficult
to reach for instruction in seats that are closest to the
teacher and within the teacher’s sight. The student
roles whose guidance is easy to follow are put in the
role of supporting the learning of the student roles.
Therefore, to create unexpected behavior, C3 was
placed in the seat farthest away from the teacher,
contrary to the considerations. In addition, A1 was
placed in the seat farthest away from C3.
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Table 1: Examples of situations which confirmed in Microteaching authors designed.
2.2 Application
Microteaching designs were incorporated into a
practice-based class for second-year university
students aspiring to become primary school teachers.
The implementation date was December 12, 2015.
The participants in each group consisted of one
teacher, nine students, and an extra observer. The
microteaching took approximately 30 minutes. The
scope of study covered the third grade of primary
schools. The learning objectives for both Design1 and
Design2 were "to understand how to add and subtract
decimals to and from one decimal place, and to be
able to perform these calculations".
The learning task for the class, designed by the
teacher role in Design1, was to line up A4-sized
sheets of colored paper, which were regarded as 1,
with thin sheets of colored paper, which were
regarded as 0.1, and ask students to think about how
many 0.1s could be placed in the sheet ”1”. One set
of these materials was prepared for each group of
three. The lesson learning task designed by the
teacher of Design2 was to ask the students to think
about how many 0.5L and 0.3L together would be,
through the juxtaposition of 'colored paper with a
picture of two beakers' and 'thin colored paper that is
0.1L.
The learning task for the lesson designed by the
Design1 teacher was to line up A4-sized colored
paper regarded as 1 with thin colored paper regarded
as 0.1 and ask the students to think about how many
0.1s could be put into 1. One set of these materials
was prepared for each group of three.
The learning task of the lesson designed by the
teacher in Design2 is to have the students think about
how many pieces of paper 0.5L and 0.3L add up to
through the arrangement of "colored paper with a
picture of two beakers" and "thin colored paper that
is considered to be 0.1L".
In addition, the teacher role of Design1 facilitated
the class with the student roles sitting on the floor,
without using a desk. On the other hand, the teacher
of the Design2 conducted the class with the student
roles sitting on chairs, in the seating order shown in
Figure.1 (right side). The reasons for the differences
in the teaching materials prepared by the teachers of
the Design1 discussed below. The characteristics of
the students played by the pre-service teachers in the
microteaching were known from the lesson design
stage for Design1. Therefore, the teacher had the
original idea of having the students sit on the floor for
the class and tried to attract the students' interest. In
addition, it can be said that the teacher tried to avoid
unexpected behavior by giving the student a specific
task to do in groups of three, namely 'laying out the
cards (0.1) on A4 paper (1)', so that the student role
could concentrate on their learning.
2.3 Management Behavior
Hereafter, the unexpected behavior that occurred in
the microteaching designed in this study will be
Design2Design1
SituationNo.SituationNo.
Sleeping situation from the beginning of the class
1
Situations where instructions are not followed and the
class is held up
1
Situations where they turn their back
2
Messing with other children
2
Playing with stationery or misbehaving
3
Playing with stationery or teaching aids
3
Hitting another friend to wake them up
4
Throwing things
4
Messing with a friend
5
Threatening or provoking other children
5
Dropping things
6
Going outside without permission
6
Walking around situation
7
Inviting other children to play
7
Going outside
8
Shouting or shouting
8
Hitting another friend to wake them up
9
Playing with stationery or teaching aids
9
Turns his/her back
10
Pointing out minor mistakes by the teacher
10
A situation where the child starts reading a book
11
Situations where children start to play
11
Situations where the whole place becomes noisy
12
Talking about topics unrelated to the lesson
12
Situations where the child does not want to cooperate in
a cooperative learning situation
13
Drawing on the blackboard
13
Throwing erasers or scraps of paper
14
Singing a song when bored with learning
14
A situation in which the whole class becomes
increasingly noisy while writing on the board
15
Situations where the pupil's gaze is not looking in the
direction of anyone other than the teacher
15
A situation in which greetings are not coordinated
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referred to as the simulated situation. The events and
situations that occur in the actual classroom are
referred to as actual situations.
Examples of simulated situations that occurred in
the microteaching designed by the authors are shown,
based on a series of utterances obtained by
transcription from the video recordings. For reasons
of space limitation, approximately one minute of each
lesson is shown for both Design1 and Design2. The
simulated situations are single underlined. The
management behaviors created by the respective
teacher roles are underlined with a chain line.
The following are the classroom situations
observed at the beginning of the Design2 practice and
the simulated situations.
[Teacher]: Good morning, everyone, I'd like to start
the first period, Tom (C1), please wake up.
[C3 role]: wake up - Tom (C1 role)!
[Any roles]: 'Wake up, first period is starting'.
[Teacher]: Tom, you must be sleepy.
[C1 role]I want to sleep, and going to home.
[Teacher]: George, what are you doing? Well, It's
time to start first period, Bob, what are
you doing?
[C3 role]: (turning back, looking restless)
[Teacher]: Bob, I'm going to start, but I thought I'd
check one rule, Bob, face forward.
[C3 role]: eh.
[Teacher]: Look forward, yes, please. And everyone,
I'm going to go over the rules that we've
been going over all this time, and if, while
we're teaching, you get an itch and you
feel like you want to stand up, please raise
your hand immediately. The reason is that
if you stand up, the teacher will be worried,
so if you make a signal before that, you
can do it, so do you remember the rules?
Bob, are you okay?
From the utterance, it can be said that the teacher
role created the management behavior of 'taking up
stationery'. Similarly, it can be said that the teacher
role of the Design2 implemented the management
behavior of 'checking the rules of the class during the
lesson.
2.4 Teacher Role's Reflections
Immediately after the practice of the microteaching,
the teacher roles were asked to reflect on their own
classes. The parts of transcripts of their utterances are
shown below. The transcripts of the teacher role of
Design2’s utterances are shown below.
[Teacher]: Well, for the time being, since I was in the
lower ranks...[omission]...my goal was to
do 1.0, 1 and up to what we did today on
the assumption that I couldn't go to the
problem areas, but it still took a lot of time
to deal with the student roles who were
doing something or not doing something. I
realized that it really takes a lot of time to
deal with every student role who is doing
something or not doing something, or who
is standing up and walking around, and I
thought I still don't know where to switch
and ignore them. ...[omission]...I also
thought that it was very difficult to know
where to switch from caution to scolding,
and I was thinking about this as I tried to
deal with the student roles who were
moving around. I was also thinking about
how to deal with the student roles who
didn't write a lot, and there were a lot of
student roles who didn't write a lot this time,
and whether to adapt to the role of the
student roles who wrote a lot or the
majority who didn't write a lot, so I adapted
to that role.
The teacher role of the Design2 was searching for
a teaching method that could achieve the goal in a
simulated situation where unexpected student role
behavior was observed. As a result, it can be said that,
as the authors intended, they created their own
management behavior of 'changing the form of the
learning activity' during the lesson.
3 EXPERT ASSESSMENT
3.1 Method of Evaluation
An Expert evaluation experiment was conducted on
the environment and learning of a microteaching
designed by the authors. The following three
evaluations of the simulated classroom environment
were obtained.
Whether the simulated situation as a whole is close
to the actual situation
Whether each simulated situation is close to the
actual situation
Whether each simulated situation is an opportunity
to learn management behaviors
Is it close to the individual situation that causes it
(assessment of similarity)?
Whether it is an opportunity for the teacher role to
learn management behaviors (evaluation as a
learning opportunity).
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For evaluating learning effects, the teacher roles
experienced creating management strategies that
mitigate unexpected behaviors during microteaching
sessions
The implementation periods were 16, 23, and 30
April and 9 and 14 May 2016. On each date, one
evaluator was invited to the laboratory to carry out the
evaluation experiment. The total experimental time
spent per person was around 120 minutes. Evaluators
were expert teachers with an average of 29.8 years of
experience (S.D: 10.8 years).
The procedure for the evaluation experiment is as
follows.
1. Experimental teaching
2. Viewing of video recordings of the microteaching
and interviews
3. Evaluation of the simulated situation from five
perspectives through a questionnaire survey.
For (1), the purpose and flow of the experiment were
explained to the evaluators. For (2), the evaluators
were asked to randomly select and watch one of the
two designs and one of the designed children that
were practiced in this study. During the viewing of
the video, the stop-and-motion method of Fujioka
(1991) was used to obtain the evaluators’ learning of
the microteachings designed by the authors and their
evaluative utterances of the situations that the
students’ roles caused.
The following questions were set for the class
evaluation and semi-structured interviews were
conducted.
What teacher skills and knowledge were learned
through experiencing the focused event?
The stop-and-motion method of Fujioka (1991)
was used when the evaluator spoke about the
simulated situation, to implement the same format as
in a classroom review meeting in a school setting.
In addition, the evaluators were asked to watch a
simulated situation randomly selected by the authors
beforehand, and to rate whether the simulated
situation was close to the actual situation or not using
a five-point scale (1: does not apply - 5: applies). At
the same time, using Asada and Sako's (1991)
classification of eight types of management behaviors,
the teachers were asked to choose which of the
simulated situations they were asked to watch
corresponded to a learning opportunity for creating
management behavior. Multiple answers were
allowed. The eight options were A. Inserting teaching
materials, B. Changing the form of children's
activities, C. Changing the order of nomination, D.
Changing the sequence of questions, E. Changing the
nomination-response rule, F. Changi ng the form of
communication, G. Changing the response method,
and H. Attention and instruction.
Table 1 shows the extracted simulated situations.
Regarding (3), the authors clarified from five
perspectives whether the situations in the student role
that occurred within the microteaching designed by
the authors were closer to the actual classes compared
to the traditional microteaching.
In the present study, this questionnaire item was
also used, and the evaluators were asked to answer the
questions using a five-point scale (1: does not apply -
5: applies). The five question items used by Sakuma
et al. (2019) were:
(i). Diverse situations,
(ii). Individual child situations
(iii). Overall child situations
(iv). Impact and change on other children
(v). Events that test the trust relationship with the
teacher.
3.2 Results of Analysis
To determine whether the five simulated situations -
(1) various situations, (2) individual child situations,
(3) overall child situations, (4) effects and changes on
other children, and (5) events that test the trust
relationship with the teacher - approximated the
actual situations, a one-sample t-test was conducted
with the population mean considered to be 3. The
results of the analysis showed a significant trend and
a significant difference in the results of all the
responses of the rater groups. The test results are
shown in Table 2.
Table 2: Results of t-tests for similarity (N=5).
Design2Design1
Degree of approximationDegree of approximation
P-valueS.D.MeanP-valueS.D.Mean
Quetion
0.024 *0.554.600.032 *0.554.60(ⅰ) Diverse situations
0.003 **0.454.200.002 **0.844.20(ⅱ) Individual pupil situation
0.002 **0.454.200.004 **0.554.40(ⅲ)Overall situation of the pupil
0.003 **0.454.200.004 **0.894.40(ⅳ)Impact and change on other pupils.
0.099 +1.004.000.032 *0.454.20(ⅴ)Test the trust relationship with teachers.
not significant: n.s. p<.10: + p<.05: * p<.01: ** p<.001: ***
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Table 3: Results of t-tests for degree of similarity.
Table 4: Percentage of similar simulated situations.
Table 5: Frequency of simulated situations that create the management skills confirmed in the experiment.
The results presented in Tables 3 highlight the
significant differences in the degree of similarity and
frequency of management behaviors that were
confirmed in the experiment. A one-sample t-test was
conducted to determine whether the mean similarity
scores for the simulated situations significantly
differed from the expected mean score of 3. To
determine the proportion of simulated situations that
occur in the microteaching designed by the authors
that are close to the actual situations experienced by
the group of evaluators, a one-sample t-test was
conducted using the results of five responses to a total
of 31 simulated situations, 15 from Design1 and 16
from the Design2.
Table 4 presents the percentage of similar
simulated situations by using scores of Tables 3.
From these analyses, key findings from the
statistical analysis indicate that the microteaching
sessions designed in this study approximate real
classroom scenarios in approximately 60% of cases,
providing useful insights for future study.
In addition, a chi-square test was used to compare
the frequency of different types of management
behaviors observed in the two designs, revealing
significant differences in specific behaviors from
Table 5. A chi-square test revealed no significant
difference between the two designs in terms of overall
learning opportunities for management behaviors.
However, a subsequent analysis using the data in
Table 5 found significant differences in the specific
types of management behavior opportunities
experienced by the teacher role (χ² (7) = 110.894, p <
.01).
Desi
g
n2Desi
g
n 1
P-valueS.D.MeanNo.P-valueS.D.MeanNo.
n.s.1.33.8
1
***0.454.8
1
***0.454.8
2
***0.454.8
2
**0.584.5
3
**0.554.6
3
n.s.0.713.0
4
***0.454.8
4
**0.454.2
5
n.s.1.34.2
5
*0.453.8
6
n.s.1.673.6
6
**0.554.4
7
n.s.1.793.6
7
n.s.1.34.2
8
**0.844.2
8
n.s.0.553.4
9
**0.454.2
9
**0.454.2
10
*0.844.2
10
n.s.1.224.0
11
**0.554.6
11
***0.454.8
12
***0.454.8
12
*0.844.2
13
n.s.1.953.6
13
n.s.14.0
14
n.s.1.523.6
14
**0.554.4
15
*0.894.6
15
n.s.1.33.8
16
not significant: n.s. p<.10: + p<.05: * p<.01: ** p<.001: ***
Percentage Similarity (X-Y)No similarity (Y)Event(X)
0.6710515Design1
0.6310616Design2
HGFEDCBA
Give
cautions
and
warnings
for pupil
Give
formative
feedback
to pupils
Change
how to
communicate
with pupils
Encourage
pupil to
learn
together
Change
how to
learn
Change
notable
pupil
Change
how to
teach
Add new
tasks for
pupil
3151011511222Measured valueDesign1
306131541716Measured valueDesign2
61
(23.63)
11
(23.63)
23
(23.63)
2
(23.63)
20
(23.63)
5
(23.63)
29
(23.63)
38
(23.63)
Measured value
Expected value
Total
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Multiple comparisons using Ryan's nominal
levels revealed significant differences among
management behaviors. Inserting teaching materials
was more effective than changing the nomination
order, nomination-response rules, or response
methods. Changing the children's activities was more
effective than changing the nomination order or rules
but less effective than attention and instruction.
Additionally, changing the order of nomination was
less effective than changing the sequence of
questions, communication, or attention and
instruction.
Additionally, changing the order of nomination
was less effective than changing the sequence of
questions, communication, or attention and
instruction. Changing the sequence of questions was
less effective than attention and instruction. Finally,
changing the nomination-response rule was less
effective than changing the form of communication
or attention and instruction. Furthermore, it was
observed that F: changing the form of communication
<H: the way of attention/direction (critical ratio = 4.0,
p = 0.0002). Finally, it was found that G: changing
the method of response < H: the way of
attention/direction (critical ratio = 5.8, p = 0.0002).
These results indicate that through the practice of
the microteaching designed in this study, the teacher
roles had the opportunity to learn the management
behavior of inserting teaching materials rather than
changing the order of nomination, nomination-
response rules and response methods to establish a
lesson. It was evident that the students had the
experience. Similarly, it can be said that the teacher
role experienced the opportunity to learn the
management behavior of changing the form of the
children's activity rather than changing the order of
nomination or changing the nomination-response rule.
4 DISCUSSIONS
4.1 Environmental Assessment
It was found that the microteaching designed by the
authors could be practiced to enable learning in a
situation close to the actual unexpected behavior.
Furthermore, the similarity between the simulated
situation and the actual situation was approximately
60%, which means that more than half of all
situations in the microteaching designed by the
authors were inevitable situations in which the
teacher role had to invoke and create management
behaviors.
In other words, a certain quality is guaranteed as a
method for learning management behaviors to control
unexpected behavior.
4.2 Causes of Low Similarity
The following reasons can be given as to why a total
of 11 simulated situations that did not show
statistically significant differences were not close to
the actual situations.
One possible reason for the low similarity
between simulated and actual situations is the over-
exaggeration of certain student roles based on the
image cards. For example, a student role labeled C3
may have been overly disruptive due to a lack of
nuanced understanding of the behavior expectations,
leading to a deviation from realistic classroom
dynamics. Future research could involve more
detailed role-playing instructions to mitigate such
discrepancies. This indicated that, to have the
opportunity to learn in a context close to the actual
classroom, the children acting out C3 needed to be
given prior instruction to avoid overacting. However,
no differences were found in the proportion of
simulated situations that occurred within each
microteaching. In other words, there was no
difference in the type and number of simulated
situations occurring between the different designs.
4.3 Evaluation of Learning
Effectiveness
The teacher roles in both Design1 and Design2
experienced various management behaviors,
including attention, instruction, material insertion,
question sequencing, communication, and activity
changes. They found that unexpected behavior
triggered management behaviors like cautioning,
scolding, and interrupting the class. While students
were confused, the teacher roles learned to identify
key student roles, adjust their lesson plans, and
implement appropriate management actions. This
suggests the method's effectiveness as an emergent
learning approach for invoking and creating
management behaviors.
4.4 Comparison with Previous Studies
This study proposed a method to cultivate classroom
management skills in pre-service teachers using
microteaching.
Previous studies have highlighted the potential
importance of emergent learning in classroom
management. Haug (2017) noted the varying
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definitions and implementations of inclusive
education across countries, emphasizing the need for
flexible responses to students’ needs. This aligns with
our findings, suggesting that emergent learning,
where preservice teachers adapt to unexpected
behaviors, may be beneficial for effective classroom
management.
Additionally, this study supports the potential
effectiveness of microteaching in improving teaching
skills such as attention management, questioning, and
class control (Gower et al., 1995; Capel et al., 1998;
Kilic, 2010). Our findings indicate that microteaching
could help in teaching emergent behaviors to handle
unexpected classroom disruptions.
Furthermore, Sakuma et al. (2019) developed
image cards to assist student roles in microteaching,
enhancing its effectiveness. Our study builds on this
by incorporating unexpected behaviors into
microteaching sessions, suggesting that this approach
may provide a more realistic and comprehensive
training experience for preservice teachers.
5 CONCLUSIONS
This study provides insights into the design and
implementation of microteaching sessions that
incorporate unexpected student behaviors. While the
findings suggest potential benefits, further research is
needed to establish more robust scientific validation.
The microteaching sessions provided valuable
insights into the challenges faced by teachers in
managing unexpected behaviors. However, more
comprehensive studies are needed to validate these
findings across different contexts and sample sizes.
By refining the pre-teaching preparation of student
roles and considering more diverse simulated
situations, future studies can better assess the
effectiveness of emergent learning strategies in
classroom management training.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant
Numbers JP24K00423. This work utilized OpenAI's
ChatGPT for initial drafting, which was thoroughly
reviewed, edited, and supplemented by the authors.
We therefore assume full responsibility for the final
content of this publication.
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