Novice Teachers’ Experience of Microteaching at Tribhuvan University: A Narrative Inquiry

Abstract

This thesis entitled “Novice Teachers’ Experience of Microteaching atTribhuvan University” aimed to find out novice teachers perception of microteachingprogram at Master level and to find outthe improvements made in microteachingprogram at Tribhuvan University. The research study adopted narrative inquirymethod to meet the objectives. Respondents narrative through oral narrative processand questionnaire consisting open ended through semi-structured interview were usedas data collection tool. Four novice teachers who completed microteaching atTribhuvan University were taken as participant. The gathered data was analyzedthematically in a descriptive form. The study find out all the respondents havepositive view on microteaching program where they get opportunity to rehearse, pilotthe prepared lesson plan and teaching learning activities. Likewise, the study revealedthat microteaching program was made for fifteen days program from a weekin masterlevel, microteaching was done through PowerPoint presentation where supervisor’srole was found students friendly. The study also revealed that seriousness of studentsregarding microteachingis necessary, where the extension of time-period and marksshould be considered seriously by government, policy level. So they regardmicroteaching as crucial pre-service teacher training program for Education studentswho really want to be a teacher qualified withtheoretically, practically, skilfully,technologically and professionally. This thesis comprises five chapters. The first chapter deals with theintroduction of the study along with background of the study, statement of theproblem, objective of the study, research questions, significance of the study,delimitation of the study and operational definitions of key terms. The second chaptercontains the review of related literature, review of empirical literature, implications ofthe review of the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapterincludes methods and procedures of the study, design of the study, population andsample, sampling strategies, data collection tools, data collection procedures, dataanalysis and interpretation procedures and ethical considerations. Likewise, the fourthchapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the collected data descriptively.And finally, chapter five comprises the findings, conclusion and recommendationswith policy, practice and further research related. At the end, the references andappendices have been included.