This is a much-needed book for educators who want to learn more than just the surface features of lesson study, to deepen the process and learning. Bringing together current knowledge and resources from lesson study practitioners and researchers all over the world, this book provides models and examples of how teachers can learn more deeply and how to support them to learn more in lesson study. The chapters connect current research/educational theories to classroom practices and are filled with examples to illustrate how deeper learning looks with lesson study; for example, highlighting the research process, paying attention to educative talk, using of case pupils (students) as the teachers focus, doing kyouzai kenkyuu well, facilitating mock-up lessons and so forth. This is not a basic "how-to" handbook of lesson study, and readers can choose chapters with topics of interest to learn and use the new ideas promptly in their work. Coming from the global network of lesson study educators, the book not only provides new learning guides but also provides stories of how lesson study has been adopted in different cultures and educational contexts.
1: Introduction 2: Lesson study as research: relating lesson goals,
activities, and data collection 3: How case-pupils, pupil interviews and
sequenced research lessons can strengthen teacher insights in how to improve
learning for all pupils 4: Teacher learning through seeing students mistakes
during inclusive mathematics lesson study 5: Going deeper into lesson study
through Kyouzai Kenkyuu 6: Refining the research lessons instructional
approach during lesson study: Mock-up lessons 7: Strengthening knowledge
development in teachers conversations in lesson study 8: Scaffolding student
teachers professional noticing when using lesson study 9: Facilitators roles
in lesson study: from leading the group to doing with the group 10:
Facilitating a lesson study team to adopt an inquiry stance 11:
Learner-centered facilitation in lesson study groups 12: Conclusion: How do
we judge the success of lesson study adaptations?
Aki Murata is an independent lesson study researcher in the United States.
Christine Kim-Eng Lee is an associate professor in curriculum and teaching at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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