Preparing teachers for the classrooms of the future through research and design.
Eliciting Learner Knowledge
ELK is a conversational role-playing game for pre-service teachers to practice understanding student preconceptions and questioning strategies.
Eliciting Learner Knowledge is a turn-based, improvisational role-playing game where a teacher (played by a teacher candidate) attempts to solicit the understanding of students (also played by teacher candidates) with a distribution of conceptions and misconceptions in a specific content area. Gameplay: During the game, players role play a teacher or a student. “Teachers” have the opportunity to formulate and post questions, listen to and interpret student responses, and develop additional questions prompt, and tasks to probe and unpack what students say (TeachingWorks). “Students” learn about students’ ideas about a topic by embodying those ideas and gain empathy for being a student in a student/ teacher situation.
Additional Practice Space Resources
Teacher Moments (Media Interactive Case Studies) presents novice teachers with short classroom scenarios and gives them spaces to practice their responses to students in the moment.
An interactive, web-based simulation which immerses participants in short vignettes of classroom discussions calling upon participants to provide responses to complex situations and student interactions.