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- Title
EXPLORING THE EFFICACY OF THE COOK SCHOOL DISTRICT SIMULATION.
- Authors
Girod, Mark; Girod, Gerald
- Abstract
Cook School District is a Web-based simulation designed to allow teacher candidates an opportunity to explore connections between their actions as teachers and the learning and engagement of simulated students. The simulation provides a setting in which to practice the processes inherent in teacher work sample methodology (TWSM). The outcomes of TWSM include analyzing the context in which teaching and learning will occur; identifying outcomes to be learned; designing and administering a pretest to evaluate prior knowledge; designing and delivering instruction, differentiating curriculum, instruction, and/or assessment as appropriate; and post-assessing student learning to determine the "value added" or teacher effects on learning and engagement. Quasi-experimental research demonstrates the efficacy of the simulation to (a) improve scores on a real teacher work sample, (b) improve field-based lesson teaching performance, and (c) affect users' perceptions of their skillfulness and valuing of concepts underlying teacher work sample methodology.
- Subjects
COOK County (Ill.); ILLINOIS; TEACHING aids; TEACHER education; CURRICULUM; SCHOOL districts; SCHOOL administration; METHODOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Teacher Education, 2006, Vol 57, Issue 5, p481
- ISSN
0022-4871
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0022487106293742