Investigation of a Training Environment for Student Teacher using Atmosphere Generation Model in a Virtual Classroom

Abstract

The training program of high school teachers in Japan lacks the chance to practice teaching skills and the admission of classes. As a new way of training and learning platform, we are running a project to develop a virtual school environment. This paper proposes a design of training system for the student teachers. This system is composed of a virtual classroom which has 30 virtual students. Each virtual student is controlled by an autonomous agent, the agents react to the trainee’s teaching performance in two ways. One is a reflective behavior, the other is emotional behavior which decided by the atmosphere generation model.