Changing directions through VirtualPREX: engaging pre-service teachers in virtual professional experience
Many pre-service teachers currently undertake their professional experience with insufficient knowledge and confidence to handle unexpected teaching situations. VirtualPREX explores the experiences of 72 pre-service teachers who undertook a teaching role-play in a virtual world. The researchers disc...
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| author | Gregory, S. Dalgarno, B. Campbell, M. Reiners, Torsten Knox, V. Masters, Y. |
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| description | Many pre-service teachers currently undertake their professional experience with insufficient knowledge and confidence to handle unexpected teaching situations. VirtualPREX explores the experiences of 72 pre-service teachers who undertook a teaching role-play in a virtual world. The researchers discuss this opportunity for pre-service teachers to utilise new methods and avenues in a virtual world to both supplement their learning and undertake preparation for practical experience. Participation by pre-service teachers in role-play enables them to test and develop a better range of professional skills and acquire confidence in, and more realistic awareness of, their skills before being placed in real-life classrooms. Presented in this paper are the findings from a pilot of this study and pre-service teacher reactions to the role-play activity including whether they felt that it was helpful in preparing them for their upcoming professional experience placement. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-353882023-01-27T05:52:10Z Changing directions through VirtualPREX: engaging pre-service teachers in virtual professional experience Gregory, S. Dalgarno, B. Campbell, M. Reiners, Torsten Knox, V. Masters, Y. G. Williams P. Statham N. Brown B. Cleland professional experience Second Life virtual worlds pre-service teachers Many pre-service teachers currently undertake their professional experience with insufficient knowledge and confidence to handle unexpected teaching situations. VirtualPREX explores the experiences of 72 pre-service teachers who undertook a teaching role-play in a virtual world. The researchers discuss this opportunity for pre-service teachers to utilise new methods and avenues in a virtual world to both supplement their learning and undertake preparation for practical experience. Participation by pre-service teachers in role-play enables them to test and develop a better range of professional skills and acquire confidence in, and more realistic awareness of, their skills before being placed in real-life classrooms. Presented in this paper are the findings from a pilot of this study and pre-service teacher reactions to the role-play activity including whether they felt that it was helpful in preparing them for their upcoming professional experience placement. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35388 University of Tasmania fulltext |
| spellingShingle | professional experience Second Life virtual worlds pre-service teachers Gregory, S. Dalgarno, B. Campbell, M. Reiners, Torsten Knox, V. Masters, Y. Changing directions through VirtualPREX: engaging pre-service teachers in virtual professional experience |
| title | Changing directions through VirtualPREX: engaging pre-service teachers in virtual professional experience |
| title_full | Changing directions through VirtualPREX: engaging pre-service teachers in virtual professional experience |
| title_fullStr | Changing directions through VirtualPREX: engaging pre-service teachers in virtual professional experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Changing directions through VirtualPREX: engaging pre-service teachers in virtual professional experience |
| title_short | Changing directions through VirtualPREX: engaging pre-service teachers in virtual professional experience |
| title_sort | changing directions through virtualprex: engaging pre-service teachers in virtual professional experience |
| topic | professional experience Second Life virtual worlds pre-service teachers |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35388 |