Evaluation of Lesson Plan Generated by ChatGPT 4.0: Focus Group

In this paper, we examine possible use of generative AI in teaching. The authors generated a lesson plan for one teaching unit in primary education using ChatGPT 4.0. To minimize the influence, the authors included only the learning outcome, subject, grade level and lesson duration in the prompt. In this study a heterogeneous focus group was conducted with 5 primary school teachers. Teachers analyzed and evaluated AI-generated lesson plan along with 4 other lesson plans created by 4 different teachers. Firstly, teachers evaluated and ranked them without knowing that among given lesson plans there is one generated by AI completely. Afterwards, they were informed that one of the lesson plans had been generated by AI and requested to identify which one it was. They put ChatGPT generated lesson plan on the first place and couldn't recognize which one was generated by ChatGPT. Despite all the shortcomings (e.g. accuracy of terminology), the results suggest that generative AI could provide good ideas and be useful for lesson planning, which is classified as one of the most time-consuming tasks for teachers. However, for AI to be effective and useful so that teacher can use it to create good lesson plan it requires specific skills and competencies such as prompt engineering, didactic-methodical, pedagogical and content-knowledge for critical evaluation and selection of the proposed content. Finally, considering the possible great contribution in the field of teaching it is necessary to further research the field of application of AI teaching purposes.