Teacher preparation and professional learning
Teaching practice, shaped around your program.
Give educators a place to rehearse classroom decisions, examine AI feedback, and discuss their work with an instructor. Explore our bilingual and ESL classroom examples, or work with us to develop scenarios for your program’s goals.
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See how the experience works through our current Texas bilingual and ESL preparation example. App screens use demonstration accounts; Canvas footage comes from a test course.
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Teaching practice begins with your program’s goals.
Aula Viva gives educators a place to rehearse classroom decisions, examine feedback, and plan a focused revision with an instructor.
Here’s one example: bilingual and ESL teacher preparation in Texas. Candidates review the class, lesson objectives, and teaching targets before responding to simulated students.
Praxi is Aula Viva’s AI teaching coach, grounded in a curated library of instructional practices. Its feedback points to evidence in the teaching transcript. Faculty review that evidence and retain assessment decisions.
After campus setup, professors can assign scenarios through Canvas using an LTI connection. For graded activities, qualifying lessons can return configured practice credit.
We can work with your program to develop scenarios, teaching targets, and supporting reference materials around your context. New applications are reviewed and tested before course use.
Aula Viva is powered by Praxitude AI, our platform for scenario-based learning and feedback.
Bring your objectives. Let’s explore a teaching experience for your program.
From planning to teaching decisions
A teaching attempt becomes a record to examine and revise.
Candidates decide how to explain content, invite participation, respond to an error and adjust language support. The simulated students respond according to their classroom profiles. Praxi, Aula Viva’s AI teaching coach grounded in a curated library of instructional practices, connects feedback to the educator’s own words.
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Plan with a class in mind
Examine student language profiles, content and language objectives, teacher-practice targets and the rubric before teaching.
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Teach independently
Use voice or text to model, question and guide the class. The candidate chooses what to say as the simulated students respond.
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Examine the evidence
Review feedback on instruction and classroom language. Open the relevant transcript passage and ask Praxi about a feedback point.
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Rehearse a revision
Choose one teaching move, try it again and compare the two attempts. Bring that evidence into a conversation with the professor.
Develop an experience for your program
Begin with the teaching decisions you want educators to practice.
Tell us about your course objectives, classroom context and the evidence you want to discuss with educators. We work with your program to define a scenario-based practice experience and agree its scope before development.
Define the goals
Identify the teaching competencies, learner profiles and classroom situations that matter in your program. Agree the language and communication demands of the task.
Develop the practice
Scope the scenarios, teaching targets, assessment criteria and supporting reference materials. New scenarios and changes to the rubric or knowledge base are reviewed and tested before course use.
Plan course use
Decide how rehearsal, feedback, revision and instructor review will fit your coursework or professional learning. Confirm access, support and any LMS setup before use.
The current classroom examples are shown below. Additional contexts are custom development, with scope and timing agreed with your program. Program-specific reference materials and assessment criteria are scoped for each experience.
A worked example
Texas bilingual and ESL teacher preparation.
Our current examples show how classroom rehearsal can fit a specific preparation context. Educators teach a simulated class in English-medium science or Spanish dual-language mathematics, examine feedback, and bring teaching evidence to a professor.
See the teaching moment behind the feedback.
In this authored test lesson, the teacher planned different ways for simulated students to participate. The excerpt shows the app’s actual feedback and a next step for rehearsal.
Current example: two classroom contexts, with selected Texas teaching targets. These examples illustrate an application of Aula Viva; additional program contexts require separate development.
Teaching targets in the Texas example
Feedback on instruction and professional classroom language.
This example uses Aula Viva’s practice rubric, with eight teaching criteria across two dimensions. Professors can connect a rehearsal to a specific course objective and examine the evidence behind each feedback point.
Instruction for multilingual learners
Make content accessible and invite participation.
- Communicate content and language objectives.
- Model ideas with visuals, examples and manageable explanations.
- Structure interaction and include students with different language profiles.
- Match questions and scaffolds to the learner.
- Check understanding and respond with useful feedback.
Teacher language use
Use language purposefully while teaching.
- Use clear, accurate, grade-appropriate academic language.
- Ask varied questions and follow up on student responses.
- Make language choices consistent with the program model, including the Spanish instructional block in dual language.
These targets connect to selected skills in the official TExES ESL Supplemental (154) framework and the instructional-practice and Spanish classroom-communication components of Bilingual Education Spanish Supplemental (165). This is Enabling Learning’s instructional crosswalk; faculty determine the fit with their course outcomes.
Course use in this example
Make rehearsal part of your methods course.
Use a shared classroom context to make candidates’ teaching decisions available for discussion. The professor sets the instructional focus and interprets the evidence. Aula Viva provides the teaching transcript, practice feedback and a focused opportunity to try again.
Before the activity
Preview the class, teacher targets and rubric. Choose a focus such as differentiated questioning, comprehensible explanations or Spanish academic language.
During independent practice
Candidates teach, inspect Praxi’s feedback and rehearse one revision. Each lesson keeps a transcript of the teaching attempt for review.
In the faculty conversation
Review authorized course work and quoted teaching moments. Ask candidates to explain their decisions and connect the next attempt to your course expectations.
Example weekly assignment: differentiated questioning
In States of matter, ask candidates to offer a response option for a student beginning to use English and an extended explanation prompt for another student. Have them identify a transcript passage, explain the choice and rehearse a revision.
Selected connection: ESL Supplemental (154), Domain II, Competency 004, supporting communication at different English proficiency levels. In a bilingual methods course, differentiated content teaching in the Spanish mathematics context connects to selected skills in subtest 168, Competency 002 of the 165 framework. A later assignment can shift to modeling or checks for understanding.
Texas’s preparation rules call for performance tasks connected to educator standards and test competencies (§228.33), lesson rehearsal (§228.41), and practice with feedback and adjustment (§228.57). Aula Viva gives professors a supplemental activity and a record of candidates’ teaching to discuss against selected course targets. It does not replace required field experiences or clinical teaching.
Current Texas classroom contexts
Revisit a class with a different teaching focus.
A classroom context is a setting for repeated practice. Within the same class, candidates can focus on modeling, participation, language support or checks for understanding. The student lesson goals and the candidate’s teaching targets are shown separately.
English-medium ESL · Grade 3 science
States of matter
Teach students to classify solids, liquids and gases and explain their reasoning. Practice making content understandable while supporting students with different English proficiency profiles.
Spanish dual language · Grade 2 mathematics
Sumamos decenas y unidades
Teach addition with tens and ones in Spanish. Practice academic explanations, questions and differentiated support while maintaining the Spanish instructional block and valuing students’ language resources.
Teaching practice in your Canvas course
Turn this week’s teaching objective into a Canvas assignment.
Assign a classroom scenario alongside your methods-course readings, discussions and lesson planning. After your university enables the connection, candidates open the assigned Aula Viva activity from Canvas, teach the simulated class and receive feedback on their teaching.
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Choose the teaching focus
Select a scenario and connect your assignment instructions to a course objective, such as modeling content, differentiated questioning or checking understanding.
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Assign it in Canvas
Add Aula Viva as an external-tool assignment. Set the instructions and due date in Canvas, and choose the available practice and grading settings.
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Candidates rehearse
They launch from the course assignment, teach, examine Praxi’s feedback and practice a focused revision. Bring their reflection into the next class discussion.
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Review evidence and credit
Open the course’s teaching transcripts and feedback in Aula Viva. For graded activities, qualifying lessons can return practice credit automatically to the Canvas gradebook.
Connected through LTI 1.3. This is a standard way for learning apps to work with Canvas. We coordinate setup with your campus LMS team and confirm the activity’s grading policy before course use.
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A teaching experience built on an adaptable platform.
Aula Viva is the teaching-practice experience built on Praxitude AI, Enabling Learning’s platform for scenario-based learning and feedback. The platform supports experiences designed around a field’s tasks, knowledge and communication needs.
If your work involves another professional field, talk with us about developing a Praxitude AI experience for your program. Each application needs appropriate scenarios, reference materials and assessment criteria, followed by review and testing.
Planning for your program
Questions about program use
Can Aula Viva be adapted to our program?
We can work with you to develop scenarios and teaching targets around your objectives, classroom context and communication needs. We agree the content, rubric, reference materials, development scope and implementation before course use. The current examples are the two Texas bilingual and ESL classroom contexts shown on this page.
How could we use Aula Viva across a course?
A professor can assign an initial rehearsal, choose a teaching focus for discussion, and return to the context for another attempt. The current Texas library has the two classroom contexts shown above. Each supports multiple teaching targets and a focused re-teaching cycle. Course use and any additional curriculum needs are discussed during program planning.
How are TEKS, ELPS and teacher targets used?
Preparation shows relevant student-content TEKS references alongside the lesson goals. These are separate from the candidate’s teaching targets. The English-medium classroom uses the 2026–27 ELPS K–3 reference for English language profiles. The Spanish dual-language class uses plain-language descriptions of Spanish proficiency. ELPS describes English proficiency; it is not a Spanish proficiency scale.
Does Aula Viva replace an exam-preparation course or clinical teaching?
Aula Viva complements methods coursework and certification preparation through selected teaching and classroom-language tasks. Its rubric is Enabling Learning’s practice rubric, not an official TExES score or a complete exam-preparation course. Program faculty retain course, readiness and certification-related decisions. Rehearsals do not replace required field experiences or clinical teaching.
What can professors see?
Authorized course staff can review the candidate’s lesson transcript, feedback on the two practice dimensions, and the quoted passages behind specific feedback points. This gives faculty concrete teaching moments to discuss with candidates. Access is scoped to authorized course work.
How does Canvas grading work?
Through LTI 1.3, a qualifying lesson can automatically return the configured activity credit to the Canvas gradebook. Eligibility uses the lesson’s practice rubric and review checks; results requiring review wait for faculty. The teaching focus in your assignment instructions guides course discussion, while the app still evaluates the lesson across both practice dimensions. Returned credit is an activity result, not certification of an individual Texas competency. Faculty retain course assessment and readiness decisions.
We have tested scenario selection, embedded student launch, a completed teaching lesson, AI feedback, professor review and automatic grade return in a Canvas test course. Each university’s installation and grading policy are confirmed before use.
How do voice, text and AI feedback work?
Aula Viva runs in a browser. Candidates can teach by voice or text; microphone access and the supported setup are confirmed during implementation. Praxi’s language feedback uses the teaching transcript and context. It is formative feedback for faculty review, not a validated pronunciation assessment.
How do we arrange program access and pricing?
Request a program demonstration and tell us about your course goals, expected cohort size, access term and LMS. We will review the candidate and faculty experience with you and confirm the activities, setup and pricing before enrollment.
Explore an experience for your program.
Walk through the current teaching rehearsal and faculty review experience. Bring your program objectives so we can discuss the scenarios, feedback and implementation you need. Please mention Aula Viva, or Praxitude AI for another professional field, in your message.