How Lesson Study Improves Instructional Development
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ElviaNidiaFigure 1: How Lesson Study Produces Instructional Improvement
Features of Lesson Study Intervening Changes in:
1. Investigation
a. Consider students current characteristics b. Consider long term goals for student learning and development c. Study the content area: key concepts, existing curricula, standards, learning trajectory
1. Teachers Knowledge and Beliefs About
a. Subject matter b. Pedagogy c. Student thinking and how to capture it d. Long-term goals for student development and how they connect to daily instruction
2. Planning
a. Select and develop research lesson b. Try problem in order to anticipate s tudent solutions c. Write lesson plan, including goals for student learning and development, anticipated student thinking, data collection points, rationale for lesson design, connection to long-term goals
2. Teachers Commitment-Community for Instructional Improvement, e.g.:
a. Motivation and to improve instruction and buy-in to lesson study process: Belief that improvement is needed, possible, and satisfying work, and that lesson study can be helpful improvement process b. Identity as someone who keeps learning c. Connection/capacity to work with colleagues who can provide help d. Sense of accountability to colleagues to provide high quality instruction that is coherent across classrooms
Instructional Improvement
3. Research Lesson
a. Conduct research lesson b. Observe and collect data during live research lesson
4. Reflection
a. Share and discuss data from research lesson in postlesson colloquium b. Team members, observers, and outside commentators draw out implications for lesson redesign, for teaching-learning more broadly, and for understanding of students and subject matter c. Summarize in writing what was learned from cycle, to consolidate the learning d. [Revise and reteach the lesson]* *An optional feature, included in this cycle
3. Teaching-Learning Resources, e.g:
a. Tasks that reveal student thinking b. Data collection protocols that capture key elements of student learning and of instruction c. Tools that support productive exchange of ideas among teachers d. Lesson plans that promote student learning
Student Learning
