SUNY Buffalo State TLE TeachLivE™

 

SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) - TeachLivE   from New York: Developing Innovative Practices in Immersive Teaching Technology

 

 

The goal of this project is to pilot the TLE TeachLivE™ virtual simulation classroom laboratory among interested departments at the college, local k-12 administrative personnel, and SUNY Institutes of Higher Education (IHEs). The project will explore opportunities for leveraging the power of SUNY to create an innovative academic program through which students and faculty across a range of disciplines and SUNY colleges collaborate to infuse in-vivo learning within the safety of the simulation lab to effectively prepare and enhance teacher preparation programs within the SUNY system.

 

Please click below to access the Final Outcomes Report. 

 

 

 

This project has five objectives:

 

1. Three separate missioned full day sessions will occur to assist stakeholders in the development and infusion of TeachLivE™ into curricula. The project will investigate design facility, and disseminate an innovative and replicable preparation model of seamlessly infusing pedagogy with evidence-based teaching techniques and classroom management strategies. A TeachLivE trainer will be present at all workshops; in person for the first session and virtually via skype for the following two.

 

2. Undergraduate students in an exceptional education course will design and teach a class lesson within the TeachLivE lab setting. The PI will collect teacher candidate impact data via teaching rubric and survey instrument for evaluation.

 

3. Conduct a mixed methods research study. This study will investigate stakeholder learning experiences and best practice patterns among the disciplines. Personnel will examine the utility of the TLE TeachLivE™ simulation lab as a primer to classroom instruction in a variety of related courses; and determine the impressions of feasibility in establishing a TeachLivE™ simulation lab within various participants’ departments. Results will be disseminated through campus-wide and SUNY-wide channels. Project co-principal investigators and personnel will also disseminate findings at state and national conferences, and outcomes will be submitted to relevant journals for publication.

 

4. Artifacts and results of research study will be disseminated through campus and SUNY-wide channels, including SUNY Learning Commons. Artifacts may include but are not limited to agendas for workshops, power points from workshop sessions, sample curricula, sample activities, project templates, and activity guides.

 

5. Findings from this project will be presented at the SUNY CIT conference, as well as state and national level conferences. A manuscript on the research project will be developed and submitted to relevant peer reviewed journals for publication.