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).