This article evaluates whether providing coaching between practice sessions in teacher education courses leads to more rapid development of skills and changes in teachers’ beliefs about student behavior, using mixed-reality simulations as a practice space and standardized assessment platform. We randomly assigned 105 prospective teachers to different coaching conditions between simulation sessions integrated into a teacher preparation program. Coached candidates had significant and large improvements on skills relative to those who only reflected on their teaching. We also observe significant coaching effects on candidates’ perceptions of student behavior and ideas about next steps for addressing perceived behavioral issues. Findings suggest that skills with which novices struggle can improve with coaching and do not have to be learned “on the job.”

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在模拟环境中进行教师辅导

本文使用混合现实模拟作为练习空间和标准化的评估平台，评估在教师教育课程的实践课程之间提供辅导是否会导致技能的更快发展以及教师对学生行为的看法的改变。在模拟课程之间，我们将105名准教师随机分配到不同的教练条件中，这些模拟课程已集成到教师准备计划中。相对于只反映教学内容的人，经过培训的应聘者的技能有了显着而巨大的提高。我们还观察到教练对考生对学生行为的认知以及有关解决感知行为问题的下一步措施的想法的重要指导作用。研究结果表明，通过教练可以提高新手难以解决的技能，而不必“在工作中”学习。