Implementation Guide for High-Leverage Practice #18: Use Strategies to Promote Active Student Engagement (CEEDAR Center)

Description:

In this practice-based learning opportunity (PLO), a description of how to use Mixed reality simulation (MRS) to teach candidates to use strategies for actively engaging students (HLP #18). Specifically, candidates play the role of a teacher in an inclusion sixth-grade science class. One of the students in the group is Nate; he has high-functioning autism. The candidates are asked to first complete pre-work activities and then plan an explicit instruction lesson that focuses on a science standard and engaging students (HLP #18). To implement this instruction, candidates and teachers will need to first have a command of explicit instruction and how to plan a lesson involving explicit instruction (HLP #16).