During the 2013-2014 academic year, secondary teacher education faculty in the School of Education updated our program outcomes, competencies, and the related rubric that is used by field instructors and mentor teachers to evaluate interns' performance in the field. In both of our secondary teacher education programs these guiding curricular documents now include noncognitive factors (i.e., academic behaviors, academic perseverance, academic mindsets, learning strategies, and social skills) and social-emotional learning competencies (i.e., self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making). Because these factors and competencies are relatively new to our interns, we would like them to have opportunities to practice using their emerging knowledge of these factors and competencies without adversely affecting the learning of real secondary students. We propose to do this by using TeachLivE™, a virtual classroom setting with avatars as students. TeachLivE™ is unique because it uses a human-in-the-loop paradigm that allows for a simulation that presents the complexities of dealing with real students. We seek funding to pilot TeachLivE™ in the Secondary MAC program which would involve a) developing four modules for use with the TeachLivE™ simulation, b) providing interns with small group and individual opportunities to engage with avatars through the simulation, and c) appraising the value added by having interns practice with the TeachLivE™ avatars. We are also seeking funding to demo TeachLivE™ with faculty and instructors not participating in the pilot to determine how to expand the use of TeachLivE™ to our other teacher education programs.