Teacher practice
What do online student teachers gain from classroom sims?
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Online Norwegian student teachers saw TeachLivE simulations as a safe place to practice classroom management and receive professional feedback.
Study at a glance
- Design
- Qualitative / archival — Focus groups and reflection logs after online TeachLivE simulations
- N
- N=21 · 21 fourth-year Norwegian student teachers
- Population
- Online Norwegian initial teacher education students using TeachLivE via Zoom
- Outcome
- Perceived affordances of simulation-based practice for classroom management and feedback
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Key findings
Students highlighted educational affordances for practicing classroom management and didactics in a low-stakes setting, plus social affordances around peer feedback and collaborative reflection. Most experienced the simulation as realistic; only a few did not. Debriefing helped them connect practice to program learning outcomes.
Methodology
Twenty-one fourth-year initial teacher education students completed online TeachLivE simulations via Zoom, taking teacher or observer roles. Researchers analyzed peer-led focus groups and written reflection logs for perceived affordances of the simulation environment.
Limitations
This is a small qualitative sample from one Norwegian program, not a controlled test of teaching skill gains. Perceived affordances are not the same as measured classroom performance later.
How this study connects
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Twenty-one fourth-year initial teacher education students completed online TeachLivE simulations via Zoom. Peer-led focus groups and reflection logs highlighted educational affordances for low-stakes classroom-management practice and social affordances of peer feedback. Most experienced the simulation as realistic; only 3 of 21 did not. Perceived affordances are not later measured classroom performance.
Evidence for the claim as stated.
What 'practice' means diverges. TeachLivE groups (21 students; 3 found it unrealistic) discuss simulated classroom management. Wellbeing groups discuss assessment challenge and relationships in existing modules. Neither is a test that the practice raised pupil or clinical outcomes. Collapsing them as 'focus groups show teacher education works' erases the object of talk.
Evidence for the claim as stated.
Open questions
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What 'practice' means diverges. TeachLivE groups (21 students; 3 found it unrealistic) discuss simulated classroom management. Wellbeing groups discuss assessment challenge and relationships in existing modules. Neither is a test that the practice raised pupil or clinical outcomes. Collapsing them as 'focus groups show teacher education works' erases the object of talk.
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