English Skills Based Micro-Teaching model is a model where the student teachers practice teaching each English component skills with the appropriate teaching techniques.
Designing model of English Skills Based Micro-Teaching model is in line with Ministry of Research and Technology of Higher Education Regulation Number 44 Year 2015 about National Standard of Higher Education article 10 and 11 stating that standard of learning in higher education constituted minimal criterion about teaching and learning process at a study program to achieve the outcomes under the following characteristics: interactive, holistic, integrative, scientific, collaborative, and students centered Interactive means the interaction of two directions between students and instructor.
Holistic is forming comprehensive and wide pattern of thought by internalizing virtue, local and national wisdom. Integrative is holistic in a united program through inter-discipliners and multi- discipliners. Scientific relies on scientific approach.
Collaborative involves interactions between learners to produce strong attitudes, knowledge, and skills. And students centered means learning model should give opportunity for the students to create fun learning and directs them to individual learning. Above all, this design was originated from previous model ever done by the instructors.
One of the most important factors in improving the quality of education and the teaching process is the teachers. Therefore, it is very important to train teachers who can compete with the rapidly developing age. From the traditional perspective, the teacher is the source and transmitter of knowledge; however, nowadays s/he has become the guide of the students throughout the learning process. This new role requires the teachers of today to attain new competencies, which creates an obligation to review and revise the teacher education programmes (Klinzing & Folden, 1991; Liston, Whitcomb, & Borko, 2006).
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➤ (n) (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
➤ (s) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
➤ (a) (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
➤ (s) represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)
…by BeeDictionary.com efforts to realize this purpose is by modifying the learning process that provides the students with bigger responsibility, trains them to get accessed of information, facilitating them to work in pair or peers, providing the opportunity for the students to perform idea or thought, as well as to provide sense of happiness. To achieve that purpose, then, a teacher as educator has to be able to create meaningful, creative, fun and dialogical learning atmospheres (Education Law No 20 of Year 2003 and National Regulation No 19 of Year 2005).
The realization of the above ideas may be processed through Micro-Teaching program, a form of learning that prepares student teachers to become educator prior to their teaching practicum.