Collaborative Lesson Study
ReVisioning Teacher Professional Development
Vicki S. Collet (Author), Ellin Oliver Keene (Foreword by)
9780807763070
Paperback / softback, published 6 September 2019
176 pages 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.255 kg
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.
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
