Mission Possible: A Fully Immersive Gamified Book Study Experience
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 ⬥ 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Presented by Karen Streeter and Ruth Okoye
Session Description:
Our poster showcases the two-year evolution of our gamified book study program for teacher professional development. We’ve incorporated a backstory, trainer personas, badges, points, missions, and challenges. This innovative approach has significantly boosted educator participation and learning outcomes.
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Resource Materials:
In this Resource Materials section, you will find reference materials, tutorials, and how-to information that will help you review or extend your knowledge from the presentation.
Resources from TeachersFirst
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- OK2Ask (free, on-demand recording):
- Blog Post:
- TeachersFirst Special Topic Collections:
Other Resources
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- Articles:
- Research on online teachers’ training based on the gamification design: A survey analysis of primary and secondary school teachers
- Ways to Gamify Your Professional Development
- How to gamify K-12 professional development
- Gamifying PD is better for teacher engagement, participation
- Awarding digital badges: research from a first-year university course
- The impact of gamification on students’ learning, engagement and behavior based on their personality traits
- 3 ways educators leverage gamification strategies
- Using Gamification in Teacher Professional Development
- Teachers, Try This: Gamify Instruction to Reduce Math Anxiety and Improve Test Scores
- Gamifying Education: Why and How
- Tailoring Learning for Teachers: The Power of Personalized Professional Development
- A Personalized Professional Development Tool: The Teacher-Learner Profile
- Personalized Professional Development for Teachers an Integral Part of Personalizing Learning in Lexington, South Carolina
- Perspective | Personalize learning for educators, not just students
- How Teachers Are Learning: Professional Development Remix
- 5 Adult Learning Principles to Help Design Better Professional Development
- Empowering Teacher Voice and Choice
- Embedding Voice and Choice in Professional Learning
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