RIS ID
13516
Abstract
This paper reports on an on-line simulation that we have developed to support our pre-service teacher education program. The purpose of this paper is three fold: first it reports on the need identified within the literature for pre-service teacher education to make stronger connections between the theory of their university experience with classroom reality; second it reports on the creation of a prototype version of simulation software (ClassSim) developed to engage pre-service teachers in decision-making processes within a virtual classroom environment; third it reports on our research where the software was used with a cohort of 186 pre-service teachers.
Link to publisher version (URL)
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education Conference
Publication Details
Kervin, L. K., Ferry, B. & Carrington, L. (2006). ClassSim: Preparing tomorrows teachers for classroom reality. In C. Crawford, C. Carlsen, K. McFerrin, J. Price, R. Weber & D. Willis (Eds.), Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education Conference (pp. 3204-3211). Chesapeake VA USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.