Week 6 Lesson Study

Lesson study helps teachers to form long term goals for student learning and development, plan, conduct and observe a research lesson an designed to bring these long term goals to life. The lesson studies help teachers to have opportunities to observe student learning, engagement and the behavior during the lesson. Balancing teaching the lesson while also assessing each student is a difficult task, but important. During the lesson study process, the teachers are given opportunities to reflect on the teaching process and also the student learning. teachers need to learn how to balance these two aspects of teaching in order to make their lesson beneficial and meaningful. Lesson study began in Japanese schools a very long time ago. It helped their teachers to make sense of the educational ideas within their practice, change their perspectives and help them adapt to teaching more accommodating to their students' learning skills, learn from children' perspective, and lastly, collaborate among other colleagues. My TE friends have definitely discussed staying in touch in the future to share our stories, ideas and help each other with lesson plans. It is definitely beneficial to help other teachers with issues or give ideas for their classroom, as well as receive them! I really appreciated this article, talking about lesson study, but it is also something that should be required for teachers. They should have to work with other teachers and brainstorm and bounce ideas off each other in order to have better lesson plans. Everyone knows two brains are better than one. Why wouldn't we practice this?! Lesson studying with other teachers and colleagues will benefit you because you will also learn new teaching forms, if not new, different. In order to create a lesson study group, you can make it informal, amongst teacher friends, but as long as you are discussing and learning and adapting new ideas for lesson plans, I think it will be beneficial for your students. It helps putting more thought into it, and the lessons will be more successful. I do not see any of this happen at my placement school. The teachers during lunch in the lounge talk and discuss students, and ways to help them, but I have never seen them critique eachothers' lesson plans. Rosa and Lauranda, do you notice this at your school?