PLATON: Developing a Graphical Lesson Planning System for Prospective Teachers
Department of Computer Science, University of Potsdam, August-Bebel-Str. 89, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
Educ. Sci. 2019, 9(4), 254; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci9040254
Received: 6 August 2019 / Revised: 30 September 2019 / Accepted: 2 October 2019 / Published: 10 October 2019
Lesson planning is both an important and demanding task—especially as part of teacher training. This paper presents the requirements for a lesson planning system and evaluates existing systems regarding these requirements. One major drawback of existing software tools is that most are limited to a text- or form-based representation of the lesson designs. In this article, a new approach with a graphical, time-based representation with (automatic) analyses methods is proposed and the system architecture and domain model are described in detail. The approach is implemented in an interactive, web-based prototype called PLATON, which additionally supports the management of lessons in units as well as the modelling of teacher and student-generated resources. The prototype was evaluated in a study with 61 prospective teachers (bachelor’s and master’s preservice teachers as well as teacher trainees in post-university teacher training) in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on usability. The results show that this approach proofed usable for lesson planning and offers positive effects for the perception of time and self-reflection.
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Strickroth, S. PLATON: Developing a Graphical Lesson Planning System for Prospective Teachers. Educ. Sci. 2019, 9, 254.
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