Teachers face overwhelming preparation burden as global education shifts toward personalised learning and outcomes based curricula without adequate infrastructure support creating fragmented system between teachers, students, school leaders and departments.
Dr Chris Byrne, founder and CEO of MESO offering intelligent planning software for teachers supported by Enterprise Ireland and ADAPT Centre Trinity College Dublin with PhD focused on curriculum change, explains why leaked UK government report showed 25% teachers considering quitting due planning burden requiring reducing class contact hours costing physical resources, how personalised education demands knowing 30 to 40 students’ individual learning needs without providing additional time or infrastructure, why outcomes based education replaced topic textbook model with broad learning statements containing active verbs like discuss and investigate developing 21st century skills, and how AI enables creating unit plans, lesson plans, rubrics and success criteria whilst human teachers excel at predicting task duration where LLMs prove terrible.
With expertise spanning education management postgraduate diploma National University Ireland Maynooth and research published in leading academic journals shaping contemporary discussions on effective strategies, discussion covers interactive role playing games using character cards for mediaeval times teaching class systems, learning intentions written student friendly language shared at start showing objectives and journey duration, and why research first approach combined with human centric AI design focuses on where teachers get caught spending time versus where AI performs well or poorly requiring blended suggestions with teacher selection
