Preparing 21st-Century Teachers With Digital Clinical Simulations: Advancing Equity and Innovation in Teacher Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will focus on teacher educators’ use of Teacher Moments, an open-sourced, web-based tool where novices practice their teaching in fully-automated digital clinical simulations that replicate authentic classroom scenarios. We will share five different ways that teacher educators have designed, implemented, and researched outcomes associated with equity-promoting simulations across varied instructional contexts. This work illustrates what is technically possible and educationally purposeful when using digital clinical simulations as a mechanism for preparing the next generation of educators to center equity in their teaching. Collectively, this work addresses persistent calls-to-action for teacher preparation programs to increase their focus on equity pedagogy through innovative and scalable practices.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning

Chair

• Chrystalla Mouza, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers

• Exploring Design Thinking to Create Digital Clinical Simulations in Preservice Teacher Education - Jennifer B. Chauvot, University of Houston; Zarka A. Ali, California State University - Los Angeles

• Improving Generated Feedback For Novice Teachers within DCS Through the Expertise of Teacher Educators - Erin Barno, ETS

• How do Elementary Preservice Teachers Engage With an Equity-Oriented Digital Clinical Simulation? - Zoubeida R. Dagher, University of Delaware; Christy Metzger, University of Delaware

• Using Digital Clinical Simulations to enhance Transfer of Equity Pedagogical Competencies in Teacher Preparation - Doreene Etongue-Mayer, College of St. Scholastica

• Exploring How Preservice Teachers Build Digital Equity in a Digital Clinical Simulation - Lauren Weisberg, University of Texas - Arlington