MICROTEACHING WITH WEB 2.0 TOOLS – A FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF PRESERVICE TEACHER TRAINING DURING THE PANDEMIC
MICROTEACHING WITH WEB 2.0 TOOLS – A FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF PRESERVICE TEACHER TRAINING DURING THE PANDEMIC

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the study is to describe and discuss a functional model of pre-service teacher training during the pandemic based on an updated version of micro-teaching that takes the real classroom to the web 2.0 environment. The participants were 47 Romanian MA students who were instructed to adopt Edmodo, an open-source Learning Management System (LMS), and other web 2.0 tools into their microteaching as part of their assignments. As a result, students were able to complete their training module even though schools closed on March, 13, at the same time improving their ICT skills which were to become essential over the second school year affected by the pandemic. Micro-teaching, pre-service teacher training, web 2.0, Edmodo, the pandemic.

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