What Is Sim School?
Project SETS (Simulation-Enhanced Training for Science Teachers) seeks to improve training for elementary level science teachers using a simulated classroom (simSchool) as a laboratory experience.
Future teachers can practice teaching in an inclusion classroom with a variety of divergent learners including students with disabilities.
Synthesizes theoretical frameworks of:
- instructional leadership
- interpersonal psychology, and
- behaviorist teaching models
- Provides a computer program which operates like a simulation game