TeachLivE TM from New York: Developing innovative practices in immersive technology Krista Vince Garland, Ph.D. Sharon Raimondi, Ph.D. Kevin Miller, Ph.D.

Middle School Classroom High School Classroom Adult- Stacey Adams (Ed’s mom) Current avatars in use for virtual rehearsal

Objective One Establish a systemic, cross-university, interdisciplinary collaboration for integrating TLE TM into teacher preparation curricula (relationships/collab oration).

Objective One

Workshop One Participants SUNY Buffalo State University at Buffalo Fredonia University Niagara University Alberti Center for Prevention of Bullying Buffalo Center for Development of Human Services (CDHS) Various Departments Exceptional Education Elementary Education Adult Education Counseling Science Education Childhood Curriculum and Instruction Language, Learning and Leadership Art Education C&I, MSEd. Program Curriculum and Instruction

Workshop Two Session One: Bullying and behavior management in the middle school classroom. Successfully navigating a parent conference Session Two: Best Practices in Teacher Preparation: Preparing educators to ask higher-order questions, provide corrective feedback, and give specific positive praise. Session Three: Academic Interventions for K-12 students (e.g., read-alouds, science scenario, working with families).

Workshop Three

Objective Two Students will design and teach a class lesson within the TeachLivE lab setting. The PI will collect teacher candidate impact data via teaching rubric and survey instrument for evaluation.

Objective Three Conduct a Mixed Methods Research Study. Examine utility of lab for various stakeholders. Surveys, focus groups, Teacher observations After-action reviews.

Objective Four Disseminate artifacts and results of study Via campus and SUNY-wide channels. Artifacts my include: workshop agendas, Sample curricula, project templates, sample activities, Activity guides.

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Objective Four

Objective Five Findings will be presented at the SUNY CIT conference, as well as state and national level conferences. A manuscript will be developed and submitted for peer- reviewed publication. Click here

Initial Findings Possible Uses: Behavior management Working with students with behavior complexities Crisis response Practicing data collection Meeting with families/parents SLP intervention skills Mock IEPs

Initial Findings What skills could be honed?  Feedback skills  Teacher supervision  Maintaining classroom safety  Keeping audience engaged/enhancing active engagement of lessons  Honing teaching strategies when working with diverse learners (e.g., ELL strategies)  Teaching skills with technology (e.g., white board)  Response to student errors (e.g., error correction, redirects, positive student praise).

Initial Findings Besides novice teachers, who else might benefit from the TeachLivE TM experience? Educator trainers Inservice teachers Administrators School and district leaders Professional Staff Residence Staff SLPs Psychologist Counselors in training Students with disabilities Students Professors

Initial Findings What enhancements do you think would improve the experience of the TeachLivE TM ?  Younger elementary avatars  Students with more profound disabilities  Principal/Teacher avatars  More virtual mobility  Interactive groups  Less formal classroom environment  More diversity

What is your primary impression from today’s TeachLivE TM experience? Fascinating, Awesome Great System Amazed Blows my mind Excellent Fascinating Impressive Impressed Very Excited Huge Potential Initial Findings

Under Analysis Presence/Perception Surveys Workshop Three Outcomes Focus Group from Block II

Moving Forward… Upcoming research project with graduate students in graduate SPD curriculum course at Buffalo State: Measuring fidelity of teacher training in TeachLivE using prompting when working with a student with ASD. Research Foundation Grant Project for development of proposal for external funding source. Replication of research study at Johns Hopkins University, School of Education and Kennedy Krieger Institute. Partnership with Empire State College for Master’s Thesis in Adult Learning. Partnership with University of North Carolina at Greensboro for doctoral research. Continued developments with new and potential partners and SUNY stakeholders.

Contact Information Krista Vince Garland, Ph.D. Sharon Raimondi, Ph.D. Kevin Miller, Ed.D.