Collaborative Lesson Study

Revisioning Teacher Professional Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8077-6307-0
Verlag: Teachers College Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Discover how Lesson Study benefits both students and teachers. Unlike scripted curricula that strip teachers of professional decision-making, Lesson Study values teachers by expecting them to be agents of improvement in their own classrooms. This resource empowers readers to oppose reform efforts that minimize teacher agency by offering an evidence-based approach to teacher-led instructional improvement. The text provides structures for attending to students' interests, knowledge, and values when planning, teaching, reflecting, and revising instruction. It also shows educators how to use Lesson Study to design culturally responsive, differentiated instruction for the K–12 classroom. Use this step-by-step guide to develop professional learning communities; increase teacher motivation, efficacy, and knowledge; and support improvement adapted to local contexts. Book Features: - Guides readers through three cycles of Lesson Study, taking teacher learning deeper with each cycle.
- Focuses on developing student understanding that supports meaningful instruction across academic areas.
- Emphasizes the utility of Lesson Study for informing culturally responsive instruction.
- Includes examples from a variety of grade-levels and content areas, featuring both pre- and inservice teachers.
- Includes additional resources and prompts in each chapter to guide application.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collet, Vicki S

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword Ellin Oliver Keene
- Introduction
- Lesson Study in a Turnaround School
- An Overview of Lesson Study
- Impact of Lesson Study on Student Learning
- About This Book
- Note
- PART I: LESSON STUDY AS RESPONSIVE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
- 1. Engaging in Lesson Study: Risk-Taking, Resilience, and ReVisioning
- Perpetual Motion: Unrelenting Improvement of Teaching and Learning
- Risk and Reward: Professional Growth through Lesson Study
- Valuing Teaching and Teachers
- Context Matters
- Reflect and Respond
- 2. Challenging Norms of Privacy and Isolation
- Benefits of Collaboration
- Challenges to Collaboration
- Shared Expectations
- Supporting, Scheduling, and Sustaining the Work
- Overcoming Privacy and Isolation
- Reflect and Respond
- 3. Lesson Study as Contextualized Learning
- Why Context Matters
- Lesson Study in Varying Contexts
- Supporting a Positive Culture for Teaching
- Reflect and Respond
- PART II: LAYERS OF THE LESSON STUDY PROCESS
- 4. Purposeful Planning: Teachers as Designers
- Collective Agency and Innovation
- Creating a Vision for the Lesson
- Predictive Planning
- Reflect and Respond
- 5. Observation: The Eyes Have It
- Another Pair of Eyes
- Before the Observation
- The Observation: Seeing with New Eyes
- Reflect and Respond
- 6. Debrief: Deep Reflection and Lesson ReVisioning
- A Disposition for Reflection
- Reflection Starts with Description
- Re Visioning through Appraising and Appreciating
- Re Visioning Teaching and Learning
- Reflect and Respond
- PART III: REFINING THE FOCUS
- 7. Building Understanding
- What is Understanding?
- Supporting Student Understanding
- Developing Teacher Understanding
- Reflect and Respond
- 8. Flexibility
- Teaching Requires Cognitive Flexibility
- Flexibility vs. the Perfect Lesson Plan
- Flexibility as a Focus for Lesson Study
- Increased Flexibility
- Reflect and Respond
- 9. Supporting Responsiveness
- Cultural Responsiveness
- Contextual Responsiveness
- Responsiveness to Individual Lives and Interests
- Responsiveness to Students' Learning Needs
- Responsiveness to Teachers' Needs
- Understanding, Flexibility, and Responsiveness
- Reflect and Respond
- Conclusion: Ongoing Cycles of Lesson Study
- Variations and Iterations
- Dispositions
- ReVisioning Through Lesson Study
- Reflect and Respond
- Appendix A: Agenda for Introducing Lesson Study
- Appendix B: Planning Our Lesson
- Appendix C: Observation Day Agenda
- Appendix D: Videos for Observation Practice
- Appendix E: Before and After Lesson Study Plans
- Appendix F: Student Interest Inventory
- References
- Index
- About the Author