The Implication of Microteaching Course on Student Teacher's Competences in Teaching

ABSTRACT This research is entitled “The Implication of Micro Teaching Course on Student Teachers’ Competences in Teaching”. The aims of this qualitative research are to find out the implication of micro-teaching course on student teachers’ competences in teaching, the skills that are achieved by student teachers from micro-teaching course, and the student teachers’ experiences from micro-teaching course. This research used semi-structured interview as an instrument in collecting the data. The population was the students of Department of English Language Education in UIN Ar-Raniry year of 2014. The participants were six of them who have taken micro-teaching course, PPL program, and taught at school or other courses. In selecting the research participants, the researcher employed a purposive sampling technique. The findings indicate that the micro-teaching course plays a significant role in improving student teachers’ teaching competence which consist of helping the student teachers in designing lesson plans, improving their classroom management, and helping them in facilitating learning to students. The student teachers also achieve denotative skills from micro-teaching course such as designing lesson plans, managing classrooms, creating the fun teaching-learning process, designing instructional media, answering students’ questions, and writing on the board. In addition, they also obtain good experiences from micro-teaching course such as getting good advices, feedbacks, and encouragements from friends and lecturers that could contribute meaningfully to the improvement of their teaching competences.

Key Word: Micro-Teaching, Teaching Competence.