lesson study symposium : a da qiao primary school 30th anniversary event
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Da Qiao Primary SchoolLesson Study Symposium
Deepening Our Practice
Keynote Lecture
Dr Yeap Ban HarMarshall Cavendish Institute
www.singaporelessonstudy.blogspotwww.banhar.blogspot.com
Lesson Study in Keys Grade School, Manila
Lesson Study in Sembawang Secondary School
Teacher Quality as a Critical Factor in Student Learning
…nothing matters more than finding people with the potential to be
great teachers.
Malcom Gladwell 2009What The Dog Saw
Lesson Study in Bina Bangsa School, Jakarta
Teacher Quality• Teacher Selection • Teacher Pre-service Teacher Education• Teacher In-service Professional Development
Getting the right people to become teachers and to
develop them into effective teachers.
Source: How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top The McKinsey Report
Teacher Quality• Teacher Selection • Teacher Pre-service Teacher Education• Teacher In-service Professional Development
“The country has made a conscious effort to have
highly-qualified teachers throughout the system.”
Source: BBC News 23 Nov 2004
Minister of Education (Finland) 2004
Teacher Quality• Teacher Selection • Teacher Pre-service Teacher Education• Teacher In-service Professional Development
“The first is improving teaching,
developing teachers professionally ….”
Source: Straits Times 23 Nov 2010
Secretary of State for Education (Britain) 2010
Teacher Professional Development Coherent Collaborative Authentic
To create a professional learning community, focus on learning
rather than teaching, work collaboratively, and hold yourself
accountable for results.Richard DuFour
Lesson Study in Fuchun Primary School, Northlight School and Mayflower Primary School
A good education system depends on high quality teachers who
constantly seek to improve their practice, supported by school leaders and administrators, and resources from departments and agencies within MOE.
Minister of Education (Singapore) 2009
Photo: Northlight School
We need to build capacity for
teachers themselves to take the lead in professional upgrading.
Minister of Education Singapore 2009
Photo: Fuchun Primary School
Identify Research Theme
Plan Lesson
Research Lesson
Post-Lesson Discussion
Lesson Plan Revision
DeepeningOur Practice 1
Lesson Study Teams must have a professional learning goal which is linked to school’s professional learning goal. This is also called the research theme.
Lesson Study in Ateneo Grade School, Manila
The Grade 5 Science Lesson Study team set as their professional learning goal how to enhance students’ higher-order thinking ability.
DeepeningOur Practice 1
The professional learning goal is based on ideal and actual student characteristics linked to school’s vision and subject’s focus.
The professional learning goal is broad but not vague.
One way to deepen our practice is to use professional learning goal to have a coherent and outcome-oriented professional learning.
Public Research Lesson at Middle School Attached to Tsukuba University, Tokyo
Schools in Japan typically use the same research theme for several
years.
DeepeningOur Practice 2
Lesson Planning Meetings
Lesson Planning meetings are ‘study’ sessions.
1. Look at how the textbooks and other curriculum materials engage students, if student engagement is the professional learning goal.
2. Learn from each other.3. Learn by reflecting on our own previous practice.
Ateneo Grade School, Manila
DeepeningOur Practice 2
One way to deepen our practice is to adopt a ‘study’ approach during lesson study.
Ateneo Grade School, Manila
How to enhance thinking skills when students are listing down differences between when they were infants and now (11-year olds).
DeepeningOur Practice 3
Post-Lesson Discussion & Lesson Refinement Meetings
1. Post-Lesson Discussion focuses on data from Research Lesson
Pathlight School
Janice saved some money on Monday. She saved $3 more on Tuesday than on Monday. Subsequently, she saved $3 more each day then the day before. By Thursday, she had saved $100. How much money did she saved on Thursday?
DeepeningOur Practice 3
Post-Lesson Discussion & Lesson Refinement Meetings
2. Lesson Refinement focuses on what-ifsa. What if the lesson is taught again to similar
students under similar conditions?b. What if the lesson is taught under other
conditions?
One way to deepen our practice is to have a more structured meetings.
What if virtual manipulative is used instead of base ten
materials? What if this is an LSM class? What if this is an
enrichment lesson? Lesson refinement meetings is filled with
what-if type discussions.Da Qiao Primary School
DeepeningOur Practice 3
Post-Lesson Discussion & Lesson Refinement Meetings
Suggested Protocols
1. Chairperson reminds the group of the professional learning goals.
2. Research teacher tells the group changes made during lesson.
3. Group members shares one observation each related to professional learning goal.
4. Knowledgeable Other synthesizes the discussion.
One way to deepen our practice is to learn to synthesize discussions into form of useable knowledge.
DeepeningOur Practice 4
What’s Next …?
After lesson study
1. Professional learning continues at the personal level which results in accepting or rejecting tentative knowledge that emerged from lesson study.
2. At the school levela. relevant data is used for efficacy studyb. long-term perspective in data collectionc. use categories rather than taking averages
One way to deepen our practice is to be precise in measuring student outcomes.
Da Qiao Primary SchoolLesson Study Symposium
Deepening Our Practice
Thank You
www.singaporelessonstudy.blogspotwww.banhar.blogspot.com
Lesson Study in Keys Grade School, Manila
Lesson Study in Sembawang Secondary School