The students role is to participate in class realistically. Each microteacher teaches for five to eight minutes. When finished, the person conducting the class takes a few minutes to reflect to the group about his or her teaching. Then everyone else joins in to discuss what they saw that they liked and why, and to discuss specific observations requested by the practice instructor. The group may also suggest a few things that the microteacher might try doing differently in the future.
Many departments like to give microteachers a specific assignment to prepare in advance.
However, it can also be left open for the participants to prepare something that they are interested in doing in a class. Besides planning how to treat the subject matter, microteachers also need to plan how to manage the process of the session paying attention to how they present themselves, the classroom dynamics, and involving the students. Because different microteachers approach similar material in different ways, participants learn a lot from their colleagues in the session as well as from their own practice teaching session. An option in microteaching is to videotape each instructor s session. If it is taped, the participants can review his or her videotape at a later time individually with a consultant.