District Leadership Fellows practiced stressful leadership situations and active listening techniques using the Mursion simulation environment in the Simmons School of Education & Human Development at SMU.
Active listening was a key skill practiced at this month’s District Leadership Fellows meeting. Using the Mursion simulation environment, superintendents would practice stressful leadership situations, pause the simulation to receive feedback, then rerun the simulation incorporating the feedback. By watching others practice, superintendents could observe active listening techniques such as open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening and summarizing.
Mursion is a mixed-reality teaching simulation environment. It is utilized at SMU to support teacher practice, offering pre-service and in-service teachers the opportunity to learn new skills and to craft their practice without placing “real” students at risk during the learning process. In addition, the simulator has been used to teach motivational interviewing techniques to SMU undergraduates and graduate students in health and counseling classes.
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