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This project provides an opportunity for pre-service teachers to engage in specific skill development and practice. Teacher preparation is less about, acquiring knowledge and memorizing educational theories. It's more of a practice based approach where students are learning the educational theories at the same time that they're provided opportunities to practice these approaches. Our research study provides our Stem pre-service teachers an opportunity for online deliberate practice, where they are given an opportunity to practice questioning and discussion with students in a virtual reality simulation.

00:00:46:09 - 00:01:30:21
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In this study, we use a holistic to platform combining synchronous and asynchronous experiences. A virtual simulation tool emerging provides opportunities for pre-service teachers to synchronously teach virtual avatars. Students. While an online asynchronous platform, canvas, provides them a skill development experience. Participants experience the four phases of Kolbe's experiential learning cycle. Embedding deliberate practice for a two week period. First, participants are provided with an experience to teach avatar students in the mixed reality virtual simulation classroom.

00:01:30:23 - 00:02:03:12
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They can witness avatar student reactions to their questions in real time, where they feel committed and motivated. Next, participants engage in guided self-reflection after every single session with the avatar students. You get the, you get the chance to reflect on what you have, have you done in the previous session? And that was a great way to look at, okay, are the questions, you know, engaging the students where they critically thinking, and were they collaborating with each other?

00:02:03:13 - 00:02:31:18
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And if not, how could you enhance your questions on the next session, to do just that? Third, participants set desired goals and engage in creating and expanding their mental model of the skill through online, self-paced skill development. Modules in canvas. And finally, participants actively focus on an isolated skill until mastered. They repeat the Kolbe cycle for each skill.

00:02:31:19 - 00:02:59:01
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Later, the skills are practiced together to match the complete desired skill. It's really good. To be honest, I never thought about effective questioning at all. I always just thought a question was a question. I didn't think that a question needed to really stimulate much more than an answer. And this is show me that it does a lot more for everybody.