Teaching Practices with Multiplayer Mixed Reality Simulations and Virtual Students

该项目旨在通过培养未来的中学数学和科学教师采用有效的教学实践来服务于国家利益。这个IUSE的学生学习水平2项目将通过解决两个问题来推进兼职教师教育：（a）为兼职数学和科学教师提供可访问和可扩展的实习经验的困难，以及（B）教师准备计划缺乏跨学科经验。该项目将开发和实施一个教学实践的虚拟环境，支持数学和科学副教师的协作和跨学科教学实践。这种可访问的虚拟工具有可能作为一种创新的方法，用于定制，推广和测试模拟课堂设置和使用虚拟学生作为教学规划的一部分。项目活动，包括利用技术模拟现实的教学经验，将为未来的数学和科学教师提供有效和适应性的教学实践。数字教学模拟将解决传统课堂模拟的局限性，使中学教师能够参与现实的课堂活动，而无需亲自进入K-12教室。该项目的目标是为中学数学和科学教师开发和研究一个开源的、基于多人模拟的学习平台。这种教学实践的虚拟环境（EVETEach）利用了反思实践和特定主题的专业知识，混合现实模拟和虚拟代理设计以及实时性能数据挖掘的观点。EVETeach将让兼职教师在3D沉浸式教学模拟的集合中规划，进行和汇报核心教学实践，并使他们能够在共同教学和共同设计跨学科数学科学教学中体验跨学科合作，重点是学习者自主性和代理，文化响应式教学和实时性能跟踪。通过混合方法，基于设计的研究方法，这个为期3年的项目将包括迭代设计实验，以研究和完善现场干预计划，以及干预对教师专业知识发展的影响的评估研究和跨学科STEM教育的概念化。该项目将生成一个新的设计框架，管理一个有效、可访问和可持续的学习系统，该系统可以激活、评估和自适应地支持未来STEM教师以实践为导向的专业知识发展。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过学生的学习轨道，该计划支持创建，探索和实施有前途的做法和工具。罗伯特·诺伊斯教师奖学金（Noyce）计划为该项目提供共同资助，以支持该项目的副教授准备目标，这与诺伊斯计划目标非常一致。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by preparing future secondary mathematics and science teachers to employ effective teaching practices. This IUSE Engaged Student Learning Level 2 project will advance preservice teacher education by addressing two issues: (a) the difficulty in allowing for an accessible and scalable practicum experience for preservice mathematics and science teachers, and (b) the lack of interdisciplinary experiences in teacher preparation programs. This project will develop and implement a virtual environment for teaching practices that will support collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching practices for mathematics and science preservice teachers. This accessible virtual tool has potential to serve as an innovative method for customizing, promoting, and testing a simulated classroom setup and use of virtual students as part of instructional planning. Project activities, including the use of technology to model realistic teaching experiences, will prepare future mathematics and science teachers for effective and adaptive teaching practices. The digital teaching simulations will address a limitation of conventional classroom simulations by allowing preservice teachers to engage in realistic classroom events without physically being in a K-12 classroom.The goal of this project is to develop and study an open-source, multiplayer simulation-based learning platform for preservice secondary mathematics and science teachers. This enactive virtual environment for teaching practice (EVETeach) leverages the perspectives of reflective practice and topic-specific professional knowledge, mixed-reality simulations and virtual agent design, and real-time performance data mining. EVETeach will engage preservice teachers in planning, conducting, and debriefing on core teaching practices in an assembly of 3D-immersive teaching simulations, and enable them to experience interdisciplinary collaboration in co-teaching and co-designing crosscutting math-science instruction, with a focus on learner autonomy and agency, culturally responsive teaching, and real-time performance tracking. Through a mixed-method, design-based research approach, this 3-year project will encompass iterative design experiments to study and refine the intervention program in situ, and an evaluation study of the intervention's impact on the development of professional knowledge of preservice teachers and their conceptualization of interdisciplinary STEM education. The project will generate a new design framework governing an effective, accessible, and sustainable learning system that activates, assesses, and adaptively supports the practice-oriented professional knowledge development of future STEM teachers. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools. The Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship (Noyce) Program is providing co-funding for this project to support the project's preservice teacher preparation goals, which are well-aligned with Noyce Program goals.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.