Leading Lesson Study: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Facilitators [Paperback]

Use this team-centered approach to directly enhance teaching and learning in your school!

First introduced in Japan, lesson study has gained enthusiastic advocates in US educational circles as a powerful, collaborative approach. This how-to guide leads a beginning team through the lesson study cycle and provides an experienced team with new perspectives. Using examples from U.S. classrooms, this handbook:

• Encourages educators to generate and share knowledge
• Inspires a teacherresearcher stance
• Illustrates both the process and substance of lesson study
• Encourages collaboration
• Provides guidelines for avoiding common pitfalls

Use this team-centered approach to directly enhance teaching and learning in your school!

First introduced in Japan, lesson study has gained enthusiastic advocates in US educational circles as a powerful, collaborative approach. This how-to guide leads a beginning team through the lesson study cycle and provides an experienced team with new perspectives. Using examples from U.S. classrooms, this handbook:

• Encourages educators to generate and share knowledge
• Inspires a teacherresearcher stance
• Illustrates both the process and substance of lesson study
• Encourages collaboration
• Provides guidelines for avoiding common pitfalls

Guides educational leaders in creating successful lesson study in American schools. The authors provide readers with a compelling rationale for the process, offer experience-tested tools, and suggest ways to address commonly-occurring challenges. This book will assist teachers, and those who support them, in understanls)