Practical Use of Lesson Structure Visualization System in Teacher Training Education and Its Effectiveness

Abstract

It is necessary for current teachers to design instructions in consideration of “How to learn”. So, university students who aim to become teachers should achieve the following two main goals: 1) to understand that there are various instructional/learning strategies, 2) to improve their skills in designing lessons that integrate a global strategy for attaining an overall goal in the lesson and local strategies for attaining sub-goals. In this study, to achieve these goals, we have made use of a system called “FIMA-Light” which visualizes lesson structures from lesson plans. In this paper, we report on a practical use of goal-decomposition trees produced by FIMA-Light in lectures of university. The results of the practice showed that the university students could achieve the following goals: 1) to enhance consciousness about local sub-goals in the lesson, 2) to enhance consciousness about relations between instructional/learning scenes and the sub-goals.