An Effect of Teachers' Awareness Facilitated by Externalizing Lesson Structure

Abstract

In this study, we have built a system called ``FIMA-Light'' which uncovers knowledge that teachers must have applied in their lesson plans from global to local viewpoints. FIMA-Light makes use of the OMNIBUS ontology which describes various instructional knowledge for attaining educational goals extracted from instructional/learning theories and practices. And, FIMA-Light automatically generates what we call I_L event decomposition trees by interpreting a given lesson plan based on the OMNIBUS ontology. In this paper, we report on practical use of FIMA-Light in a lecture in Teaching Profession Graduate School in order to investigate changes in teachers' awareness of teaching strategies brought about by providing them with I_L event decomposition trees.