Serious Games Improving Teacher Education

SERIOUS GAMES MARKET Partners on the project included the UCF College of Education, the UCF Interactive Performance Lab, and the Haberman Educational Foundation. The scenario developed and tested was to help train teachers in classroom management. …

Concept Visualization for Virtual Classroom providing realistic immersion, alternative displays, after-action-review, performance tracking, virtual puppetry, ©2006 Simiosys™

A unique program at the University of Central Florida uses computer-generated virtual students to teach classroom management skills to education majors.
The Media Convergence Laboratory at UCF’s Institute for Simulation and Training served as the research subcontract partner to Simiosys, LLC on a project to explore the feasibility of using emerging media technology to develop a unique teacher training environment. Simiosys is an acronym derived from the terms SIMulation, InterOperable, SYStems.

Partners on the project included the UCF College of Education, the UCF Interactive Performance Lab, and the Haberman Educational Foundation. The scenario developed and tested was to help train teachers in classroom management.

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  1. Dr. Patrick Groff, Professor of Education Emeritus, San Diego State University
    January 10, 2011 at 12:23 am

    As a longtime teacher and teacher educator, I remain unconvinced that attempts to make sure all teachers will be successful is unrealistic. The pertinent fact in this regard is that teachers who instruct children from affluent homes remain much more "capable" than do teachers of children from poor families. Thus the only efective way to determine how capable teachers are is to rotate their assignments to the two different kinds of schools.

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  2. Dr. Patrick Groff, Professor of Education Emeritus, San Diego State University
    January 10, 2011 at 12:23 am

    As a longtime teacher and teacher educator, I remain unconvinced that attempts to make sure all teachers will be successful is unrealistic. The pertinent fact in this regard is that teachers who instruct children from affluent homes remain much more "capable" than do teachers of children from poor families. Thus the only efective way to determine how capable teachers are is to rotate their assignments to the two different kinds of schools.

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