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