Lesson preparation plays a crucial role in structuring and organizing the teaching process. However, traditional lesson design and presentation creation require teachers to spend a considerable amount of time reviewing the literature and organizing m...
Large language models (LLMs) can assist lesson planning, but simple prompts often yield incomplete and misaligned outputs. This study proposes a three-step prompt framework grounded in Bloom’s taxonomy, Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational (ACT...
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...
The design of learning environments aimed at all students in the learning group is a requirement of modern lesson planning. In science education research, especially in the German tradition of didactics, the model of educational reconstruction (MER)...
Contemporary education is evolving in a landscape shaped by technological advancements, with generative artificial intelligence (AI) gaining significant attention from educators and researchers. ChatGPT, in particular, has been recognized for its pot...
Personalized lesson planning is time-consuming and demands simultaneous alignment to curriculum standards, classroom constraints, and individual teacher style. Although large language models (LLMs) can draft lesson plans, their outputs often remain g...
Lesson planning is a core professional practice for pre-service teachers, yet opportunities for timely, individualized feedback are frequently constrained by educator workload. While generative AI has the potential to enhance planning processes and e...
Pre-service teachers today face challenges and opportunities in increasingly linguistically diverse Swedish schools. The present study aims to understand how pre-service English teachers of Years 4–6 (ages 10–12) plan lessons while consid...
Lesson planning is a core task for preservice teachers and simultaneously a major challenge due to the complexity of the planning process. This complexity can be reduced by using preselected teaching materials (material-based planning). To explore it...
Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been part of our lives for some time, the launch of the Generative Pretrained Transformer (ChatGPT) has given it renewed attention. While most of these debates are about higher education in general, this arti...
Teacher collaboration, particularly through collaborative lesson planning, plays a key role in fostering professional development and teaching skills. This study investigates the effectiveness of the proposed Shared Collaborative Lesson Planning (SCL...
The rapid development in the fields of science, and information and communications technologies (ICTs) in recent years, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, have brought about and continue to generate transformations in education, especially in adult ed...
Augmented reality (AR) is vital in education for enhancing learning and motivation through interactive environments and experiments. This requires teacher training in AR creation and integration. Research indicates that learning effectiveness relies...
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The purpose was to create and assess the impact of food literacy curriculum alongside a centrally procured school snack program among grade five students in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Grade five students (N = 287) from five intervention and three...
This study explores how pre-service English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers used three Generative AI (GenAI) tools, ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek, while planning and teaching lessons. Drawing on ecological model of teacher agency, it examines ho...
This paper presents an Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) framework for the automated generation of lesson plans aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy. The proposed system addresses the dual challenges of accurate cognitive classification and pe...
The increasing linguistic and cultural diversity in K-12 schools necessitates preparing preservice teachers [PSTs] to address the unique needs of Emergent Bilinguals [EBs]. This study examined elementary preservice teachers’ (PSTs) lesson plans...
This exploratory qualitative study reports student teachers’ knowledge of multiperspectivity as well as how student teachers consider multiperspectivity in lesson planning. The study was embedded in a project in which German and Dutch student t...
This self-study presents Persona, Break Glass, Name Plan, Jam (PBNJ), a human-centered workflow for using generative AI to support differentiated lesson planning and problem solving. Although differentiated instruction (DI) is widely endorsed, early-...
This study investigated the enhancement of topic-specific pedagogical content knowledge (TSPCK) among life science educators, with a particular focus on cellular respiration. The research identified a lack of studies on this topic, especially within...
Following concepts describing lesson planning as a form of anticipatory reflection, preservice physics teachers’ reflection skills are assumed to be positively connected with their planning skills. However, empirical evidence on this is scarce....
Drawing from a broad and multifaceted stream of educational research and practice that has gradually emerged in recent decades within science education field, widely known as Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE), the current study aims to extend it...
This study investigated the impact of preparing lesson plans and conducting microteaching activities—aligned with the learning outcomes of the mathematics curriculum—on the development of sustainability beliefs among teacher candidates. T...
The introduction of ChatGPT for public use has generated increasing interest among educational researchers in evaluating the utility of artificial intelligence (AI) in pedagogical settings. This study aims to contribute to this growing body of resear...
An efficient approach to fostering students’ scientific inquiry (SI) competencies (e.g., planning investigations) is to combine student engagement in inquiry activities with explicit instruction that addresses corresponding concepts (e.g., the...
This study arose from a desire to investigate initial teacher education for primary school mathematics teachers in Hong Kong. A conceptual framework for analyzing pre-service teachers’ mathematical knowledge and beliefs informed this qualitativ...
Printed pictures are traditional forms of agricultural extension for smallholder farmers. They receive historical academic criticism but remain inexpensive, do not require technical skills (unlike smartphones), and bypass language/literacy barriers....
In this research article, budding journalists’ views and attitudes toward a prototype radio lesson that was designed and implemented utilizing advanced technologies are explored. These budding journalists hail from Greece, were studying in high...
This study analyses probability tasks proposed by primary education teachers to promote probabilistic literacy. To this end, eight class sessions at various levels of the Chilean educational system were recorded on video and analysed through the ”pro...
We build on previous studies that explore the challenges faced by current and future teachers as they learn to teach mathematics for social justice by focusing on a precursor to teaching lessons, that is, the process of lesson design. Specifically, i...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is being investigated as a pedagogical tool in early childhood education, particularly for lesson planning and professional learning. This study examined preservice teachers’ reflections on GenAI-gener...
The peacebuilding process plays a critical role for urban planning in paving the way for sustainable peace or upcoming conflicts, where it is not innocent and not impartial. The paper aims to draw out lessons learned from Belfast to Syria, focusing o...
There is increasing use of digital technologies in urban planning, including in the generation of designs and the participative side of planning. We examine this digital planning by reporting on the application of an experimental online participatory...
Over the last half-century, the world’s human population has doubled, impacting almost all ocean and land areas. The threats facing primates in the wild have never been greater or more complex. Primatologists have long been aware of these threa...
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly woven into educational design and decision-making, its use within initial teacher education (ITE) exposes deep tensions between efficiency, equity, and professional agency. A critical action resear...
Flexibility has been increasingly valued in mathematics education to better prepare students for lives in the rapidly changing society of the future. Although there has been conjecture that teachers’ flexibility plays a substantial role in faci...
Environmental factors motivate migration across the globe, calling for better planning. Although the US experienced such movements during the COVID-19 pandemic, literature on population mobility and outcomes for receiving communities in the US is sca...
Amid a changing global climate, Northern coastal communities face a variety of challenges to their livelihoods, which are dependent on marine resources. Marine spatial planning (MSP) provides opportunities for cooperation between authorities, stakeho...
There is a growing consensus that to effectively adapt to climate change, cities need user-friendly tools and reliable high-resolution biophysical and socio-economic data for analysis, mapping, modeling, and visualization. This study examines the ava...
This paper presents the results of the analysis conducted on six case studies related to solar energy integration in urban and rural environments located on the Italian territory. The analysis has been carried out within the Subtask C—Case Stud...
The rising availability of digital traces provides a fertile ground for data-driven solutions to problems in cities. However, even though a massive data set analyzed with data science methods may provide a powerful and cost-effective solution to a pr...
The COVID-19 pandemic took place during the years 2020–2022 and the virus, named SARS-CoV-2, seems likely to have resulted in an endemic disease. Nevertheless, widespread COVID-19 has given rise to several major molecular diagnostics’ fac...
Digital platforms have been increasingly adopted to support sustainable climate-resilient planning by implementing nature-based solutions (NbSs) as an effective short-term strategy. Although existing studies have deepened the operational performance...
In this article, the quality of media studies education through effective teaching utilizing audiovisual media technologies and audiovisual content (audiovisual media communications) to budding journalists as adult learners (18 years and older) is re...
This paper reports on how 10 middle and high school preservice teachers (PSTs) designed a social justice focused lesson using the culturally responsive mathematics teaching (CRMT) tool. Results from our analysis indicate that most of the PSTs were ab...
This study examines how the characteristics of a disciplinary professional learning community (DPLC) of middle school science and technology teachers function as resources for pedagogical design. Qualitative data were collected through in-depth inter...
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Nowadays, audiovisual media technologies and audiovisual content (audiovisual media communications) play an important role in our physical/psychological health, education, and lifelong learning, causing the redefinition of the teaching methodology. A...
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is increasing its influence at all educational levels and specifically, it is affecting how a school and a learning environment can be organized. Consequently, teacher education institutions are investigating...
Students’ engagement is a fundamental challenge in large classrooms in higher education. In recent years, innovative technologies such as electronic learning and online polling platforms have made learning more engaging, effective, and interact...
In this study, a diary was developed and used by students to reflect on digital games in geography lessons. The students’ reflection results, through the use of the diary, were compared with reflections without instructional guidance. These res...
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