A Collaborative Virtual Environment to trainteachers in managing students’ challenging behaviours

• Dimakos Ioannis ^[1] ; Alexandridis Fanis ^[4] ; Assante Dario ^[5] ; Doeller Mario ^[6] ; Gerth Sabrina ^[2] ; Kourea Lefk ^[3] ; Madritsch Reinhold ^[2] ; Papastamatiou Nikos ^[7] ; Skaloumbakas Christos ^[7] ; Steinbacher Hans-Peter ^[6]
  1. [1] University of Patras

     University of Patras

     Dimos Patras, Grecia

     
  2. [2] Pedagocial University Tyrol

     Pedagocial University Tyrol

     Innsbruck, Austria

     
  3. [3] University of Nicosia

     University of Nicosia

     Chipre

     
  4. [4] Theofanis Alexandridis Kai Sia
  5. [5] Universita Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno
  6. [6] FachHochschule Kufstein Tirol Bildungs
  7. [7] Habilis Monoprosopi Ike

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• Localización: 2022 Envisioning Report For Empowering Universities, 2022, ISBN 9789079730469, págs. 39-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Teachers’ training and re-training is a recurrent central aspect in National and European policies in education, in orde to keephigh their level of preparednees and effectiveness. Dealing with challenging student behavior is recognized as one of the mainsources of stress for teachers, causing the experience burnout, and in the younger ones possibly leave the profession. Therefore,the training of teachers in classes with students who exhibit challenging behaviors is a particularly important aspect, but alsovery difficult to achieve. The VIRTUOUS project intends to make use of the most modern Collaborative Virtual Environmentsand Virtual Reality tools, to develop an innovative training course for teachers in this condition. The immersive experienceplaces the teacher in a very realistic scenario and leads him/her to make decisions and adopt behaviors as if he/she were in areal class. The use of virtual reality headsets increases the degree of involvement of teachers. The project is not only innovativeas teacher training tools in the specific context, but more generally as a model for using virtual collaborative environments asa training methodology.