Teacher Moments

Teacher Moments is a collaborative project with Justin Reich, Erin Barno, and the Teaching Systems Lab at MIT. The project explores how AI-supported simulations can support our educators in preparing for challenging real-life scenarios using a robust collection of existing teaching scenarios developed by MIT teacher educators and partners. We've partnered with the team and teachers to build a tool to empower educator learning and are excited about its future.

The tool provides text-, animation- and video-based interactive simulations to mimic the "tough, teachable moments" that educators inevitably encounter in their work. In each scenario, student demographics are randomized, and the simulation ends in a "volatile moment of instruction" that requires the teacher's response. A review of their interventions with students of various demographic backgrounds gives participants valuable insight to the unconscious biases influencing their classroom interactions and relationships.