VirtualPREX
Virtual Professional Experience
Innovative assessment using a 3D virtual world with
pre-service teachers
VirtualPrex is a mechanism whereby pre-service teachers can gain skills, confidence and techniques to support their real life professional experience prior to practicum by the use of virtual worlds.
About the Project
Aims
Outcomes
Phases
How to use SL and VirtualPREX tools
VirtualPREX classrooms
VirtualPREX role-plays
Machinima
Assessment
Dissemination
Contacts - Project Team
Sponsored by:
Support
for this
project has been provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching
Council Ltd, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of
Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
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About the
Project
| The overarching purpose of this
project is to investigate how to design and implement a 3D virtual
environment to facilitate effective formative assessment of teaching
practice in order to assist pre-service teachers to acquire a better
range of professional skills and better confidence in and more
realistic awareness of their skills before being placed in real life
classrooms. A strong professional experience component is acknowledged as essential to teacher preparation, and school-based practice sessions to allow students to apply pedagogical theories in a realistic teaching situation are integral to all pre-service teacher education programs in Australia. Recognising that formative assessment explicitly designed to promote effective learning is the single most powerful educational tool available for both supporting high-quality learning and empowering lifelong learners, our project will design and implement a virtual professional experience environment, VirtualPREX, incorporating formative assessment and a constructivist approach to provide pre-service teachers with experiences that reflect the complex, diverse and multi-faceted nature of a teacher’s role in classrooms, schools and the broader community. Students will be provided with a virtual primary school classroom in which to practise their classroom teaching skills through role-play, learning, teaching, evaluation, reflection and self/peer/educator-assessment, prior to their first PREX or between PREX to consolidate learning. |
