For our informal partnerships, we provide initial guidance and overview materials but no direct support. This page outlines the resources and materials we provide. If you are interested in a higher level of support or guidance, we recommend emailing simlab@virginia.edu about our grant funded, formal partnership opportunities.
Our informal partners take on a selection of materials that works for their sites, tweaks and implements those materials with their own students, and then publishes the work on their own. All we ask is that you cite Julie Cohen and Vivian Wong (Cohen & Wong, 2019) in text for the materials and include a foot note on all publications that credits the TeachSIM project. If you do modify the materials, we also ask that you share back with your modified materials so that we can add them to our resource bank here.
We have organized our materials by scenario. Our partners are welcome to use any combination of the scenarios and materials at their school sites.
Classroom Norms and Expectations Scenario
This five-minute scenario can be offered in person or over Zoom.
In it, candidates spend five-minutes setting classroom norms and expectations with a group of five middle school students on the first day of school. During the scenario, one student repeatedly engages in off-task behaviors which the teaching candidate will have to redirect for the activity to continue.
We offer:
- Pre-surveys
- You can choose either a pre-survey for just this scenario or a pre-survey that includes demographic and background information on the candidates.
- Post-surveys
- Interactor materials
- Our scenarios include explicit time guidance and fidelity information for our sim specialists to ensure that all candidates have the same experience.
- Candidate materials
- In addition to providing the scenario directions for candidates, we also offer sample email scripts to send out before and after simulations and how to guides for using Zoom.
- Simulation staff materials
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- We offer both how to guides for running and setting up a session and scripts for simulation staff members to use in greeting students
- Coaching materials
- We include both a coaching survey coaches can use during live coaching sessions and materials for training coaches.
- Coding guides
- We have created highly reliable coding guides for scoring teaching candidate performance in the simulator as well as information on training coders. Because coding can be challenging, we also offer one hour sessions with one of our master coders. If you are interested in this, please email simlab@virginia.edu
- Replication options
- This scenario can be offered as a pre- and post- in a classroom management course with no intervention.
- The scenario can also be used to test an intervention. We include materials for a coaching intervention but self-reflection interventions, including video assisted self-reflections also work well with the scenario. We encourage partners to develop and test interventions and to then share the interventions with us!
- Sample timelines
- While our partners are more than welcome to implement the scenarios on a time frame that works for them, we have model timelines that lay out what we do when for these scenarios.
Our preview packet is available here!
Text Base Discussion Scenario
This six-minute scenario can be offered in person or over Zoom.
In it, candidates spend six-minutes discussing a text with students using standardized discussion questions. During it, several students exhibit misunderstandings of the text which the teaching candidates need to address through giving high-quality feedback.
We offer:
- Pre-surveys
- You can choose either a pre-survey for just this scenario or a pre-survey that includes demographic and background information on the candidates.
- Post-surveys
- Interactor materials
- Our scenarios include explicit time guidance and fidelity information for our sim specialists to ensure that all candidates have the same experience.
- Candidate materials
- In addition to providing the scenario directions for candidates, we also offer sample email scripts to send out before and after simulations and how to guides for using Zoom.
- Simulation staff materials
-
- We offer both how to guides for running and setting up a session and scripts for simulation staff members to use in greeting students
- Coaching materials
- We include both a coaching survey coaches can use during live coaching sessions and materials for training coaches.
- Coding guides
- We have created highly reliable coding guides for scoring teaching candidate performance in the simulator as well as information on training coders. Because coding can be challenging, we also offer one hour sessions with one of our master coders. If you are interested in this, please email simlab@virginia.edu
- Replication options
- This scenario can be offered as a pre- and post- in a classroom management course with no intervention.
- The scenario can also be used to test an intervention. We include materials for a coaching intervention but self-reflection interventions, including video assisted self-reflections also work well with the scenario. We encourage partners to develop and test interventions and to then share the interventions with us!
- Sample timelines
- While our partners are more than welcome to implement the scenarios on a time frame that works for them, we have model timelines that lay out what we do when for these scenarios.
Our preview packet for Text-Based Discussion is available here!
Family Engagement Scenario
This seven-minute scenario can be offered in person or over Zoom.
In it, candidates meet with Bennett Reed, the father of a student in their classroom who is struggling to make friends and socialize in the classroom. During the conversation, Bennett expresses concern about his daughter and pushes back on the teacher’s inexperience, forcing teachers to practice empathy and maintenance of a positive tone.
We offer:
- Pre-surveys
- You can choose either a pre-survey for just this scenario or a pre-survey that includes demographic and background information on the candidates.
- Post-surveys
- Interactor materials
- Our scenarios include explicit time guidance and fidelity information for our sim specialists to ensure that all candidates have the same experience.
- Candidate materials
- In addition to providing the scenario directions for candidates, we also offer sample email scripts to send out before and after simulations and how to guides for using Zoom.
- Simulation staff materials
-
- We offer both how to guides for running and setting up a session and scripts for simulation staff members to use in greeting students
- Coaching materials
- We include both a coaching survey coaches can use during live coaching sessions and materials for training coaches.
- Coding guides
- We have created highly reliable coding guides for scoring teaching candidate performance in the simulator as well as information on training coders. Because coding can be challenging, we also offer one hour sessions with one of our master coders. If you are interested in this, please email simlab@virginia.edu
- Replication options
- This scenario can be offered as a pre- and post- in a classroom management course with no intervention.
- The scenario can also be used to test an intervention. We include materials for a coaching intervention but self-reflection interventions, including video assisted self-reflections also work well with the scenario. We encourage partners to develop and test interventions and to then share the interventions with us!
- Sample timelines
- While our partners are more than welcome to implement the scenarios on a time frame that works for them, we have model timelines that lay out what we do when for these scenarios.