Computer Simulations: Field Testing Effectiveness and Efficiency for Inservice and Preservice Teacher Preparation

Wood, Mary M.; Combs, Carolyn; Swan, William W.

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“…The preservice teacher may return to the original scene and choose an alternative response and then compare results based on different teacher actions. Similar types of simulations have been generated using videotapes and/or computers (Roger & Reiff, 1989;Strang et al, 1987;Wood, Combs, & Swan, 1985). &dquo;Simulations like these allow trainees to explore the consequences of alternate courses of actions without risking harm to children or to their own credibility&dquo; (Salzberg et al, 1989, p. 35).…”

Section: Technology-based Simulationsmentioning

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Strategies to Facilitate Preservice Teachers' Active Involvement in Learning

Sileo

Prater²,

Luckner³

et al. 1998

Teacher Education and Special Education: The Journal of the Tea

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Research in the fields of education and psychology supports the movement toward students' active engagement in their learning. Learners at all levels, but particularly at the college level, receive augmented benefits from increased involvement in their acquisition of new knowledge and skills. This is particularly critical for teacher education candidates who are preparing for careers as educators. The purpose of this article is to discuss various learning strategies that foster preservice teachers' active participation in learning. We present a learning continuum that considers simulated, spectator, exploratory, analytic, and generative experiences. Specific approaches that are described within this continuum include role playing, service learning, and journal writing activities as well as videotape lessons with peer-assisted reflection and field-centered teacher education. We also offer a series of instructional strategies applicable to university classrooms that include a range of action methods such as icebreaker, continuum, storyboarding, and cooperative learning activities, among others. ver the last decade, the fields of education and psychology have produced a large and growing body of literature that focuses on teaching and learning processes

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Section: Technology-based Simulationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies to Facilitate Preservice Teachers' Active Involvement in Learning

Sileo

Prater²,

Luckner³

et al. 1998

Teacher Education and Special Education: The Journal of the Tea

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Interrelationships between importance, knowledge and attitude of the inexperienced

Powell¹

1999

Computers & Education

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The Uses of Simulations in Teacher Preparation

Cruickshank

1988

Simulation & Games

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In the simplest sense, to simulate is to give or take on the appearance of something else. Most phenomena are amenable to simulation and have been simulated. Results range from feigning wars to landing a space craft on a distant planet. Within professional education simulations have been created to select teachers (Bolton, 1971) and to prepare principals, guidance counselors, and school superintendents (Hemphill et al., 1962).The purpose here is to focus on their past and present use in preparing teachers and to speculate with regard to future applications.PAST USES First reference to use of simulation in teacher preparation was made by Edwards (1&65) when he described how teachers were prepared in the normal schools instituted in the mid-nineteenth century. Such schools served as antecedents to four-year teachers' colleges. Edwards (p. 280) noted; Another essential requisite in a normal school is that it gives its pupils [future teachers] an opportunity of some kind of practice in teaching under the supervision and subject to the criticism of . xperienced and skillful instructors. This is accomplished in

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Computer Simulations: Field Testing Effectiveness and Efficiency for Inservice and Preservice Teacher Preparation

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Strategies to Facilitate Preservice Teachers' Active Involvement in Learning

Strategies to Facilitate Preservice Teachers' Active Involvement in Learning

Interrelationships between importance, knowledge and attitude of the inexperienced

The Uses of Simulations in Teacher Preparation

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