Effective Alignment between University Education and Teaching Practice through Automatic Interpretation of Lesson Plans

Abstract

We have built an instructional design support system called “FIMA-Light” which reasons about teacher’s intentions from his/her lesson plan and automatically produces I_L event decomposition trees. In this paper, we discuss a particular use of I_L event decomposition trees produced by FIMA-Light in a teacher education program. First, we consider effective alignment between teacher education at university and teaching practice in the classroom. We also report on trial use of FIMA-Light in teacher education at university in order to investigate the usability of the information expressed by I_L event decomposition trees.