This innovative teaching way is a professional development process that Japanese
teachers engage in to systematically examine their practice, with the goal of
becoming more effective. This examination centers on teachers working
collaboratively on a small number of "study lessons".
Lesson study is a simple idea. If you want to
improve instruction, what could be more obvious than collaborating with fellow
teachers to plan, observe, and reflect on lessons? (Lewis 2002)
From that quote I can reveal that lesson study is mainly
based in cooperative and group work in which teachers support each other ideas
in planning, teaching, observing, revising and sharing the results of a single
class lesson or unit lesson. According to this website (http://www.uwlax.edu/sotl/lsp/overview.htm)
it suggest that teachers follow these steps:
Form
a Team: Teams are
usually composed of 3-6 instructors.
Develop
Learning Goals: Team
members articulate what they would like students to know and be able to do as a
result of the lesson.
Design
the Lesson: The team
designs a lesson to achieve the learning goals.
Plan
the Study: The team
decides how to observe and collect evidence of student learning.
Teach
and Observe: One team
member teaches the lesson while others observe and collect evidence of student
learning.
Analyze
and Revise: The team
discusses the results and assesses student progress toward learning goals.
Document
and Disseminate: The team
documents the lesson study and shares their work with colleagues.
I love this way of working since the benefits are
huge, primarily students because they are going to work over a precisely done
lesson plan and definitely it is going easier for them to achieve the
objectives of the class. Professors as well as they learn new thing each time
they cooperate on the lesson plan developing because the process they follow is
not that simple, the may have to do a lot of research.
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