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Meet our Avatars!

Elementary/Middle School
 

The five students that are featured in this environment represent typical students teachers may have in their classrooms. Each student has his or her own stregnths, unique abilities, and personality archetype. 

 

This environment may also be used as an English Speakers of Other Languages (ESL) environment and fluent Spanish speaking classroom. 

High School 


The same set of students from the elementary /middle school setting are present, but have more life experiences to draw upon. Students in this environment are seated at tables in a wide horseshoe shaped arrangement.

Austin
 

Austin is an avatar that portrays a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder. He is currently placed in an an iclusive classroom and has limited verbal communication skills. Behaviors that Austin may display may include rocking, hand flapping, head shaking, and echolalia. Paricipants may work with Austin in a whole class lesson, or one-to-one at a table. 

 
Martin


Martin is the most recent addition to the TeachLivE cadre of avatars. Martin portrays a student with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Participants working with Martin will need to draw upon their communicaiton skills to effectively communicate and engage with Martin. Session instructors can select from a range of communication responses and behaviors when working with this avatar.

Stacey Adkins/Lewis

Stacey Adkins is commonly used as a parent or teacher in our educational programs. She is frequesntly selected for use in parent-teacher conference scenarios and depending on the preference of the professor, her disposition can range from easy-going or oppositional.

 

Stacey has also been used in the Educational Leadership program for school administrators to practice delivering APPR results to teachers in K-12 settings.

 

Other TeachLivE partners have utilized this avatar in counseling programs to simulate a female in crises. Hospitality programs have worked with Stacey to simulate a scenario involving an unhappy client or customer. 

The V.A. Three

The V.A. three environment has been used in a Master's Degree Thesis in Adult Learning for SUNY Empire State College. The V.A. Three have also been utilized  with the Center for Development of Human Services (CDHS). This setting has helped participants to simulate facilitation of professional development and is being investigated for use in trainings centered around evaluations for child protective services. 

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