0930
Singapore Time
Opening of Conference in Zone 3
Welcome
Catherine Lewis: Mills College, San Francisco and
Pete Dudley, President of WALS
Session 1
1000 - 1100
Singapore Time
1115 - 1130
Singapore Time
Keynote: Professor Manabu Sato
Chair: Professor Sumar Hendayana
followed by
Introduction to the WALS Routledge Lesson Study Series
Session 2
1130 - 1220
Singapore Time
A: Papers
Promoting elementary school teachers’ multigrade teaching in mathematics in a remote area in Taiwan
This study conducted a Lesson Study (LS) to improve elementary school teachers’ mathematical teaching proficiency in multigrade classrooms in a remote area in Taiwan. The focus of LS is to facilitate participating teachers’ formative assessment practice to differentiate their instructions to meet individual students’ needs. Data collection includes interview transcripts, meeting recordings, and classroom observations. The researchers applied the constant comparative method to learn the challenges the teachers met and their professional development. Research findings suggest that a) the teachers mainly struggled with addressing two natures of mathematics: The logical and robust structure of established mathematical knowledge and the social construct process of mathematical knowledge. This tension affected the teachers’ view on multigrade teaching; b) the teachers appreciated the collaborating opportunity with colleagues created by LS and concentrated more on students’ mathematical thinking when planning and reflecting their lessons. Several teachers expressed the enhancement of professional knowledge in teaching mathematics.
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Issues of equity
DEEP DIVE - Single Paper Roundtable
Chang Hua Chen
Taiwan
A cross-cultural online lesson study for teaching an in-service teacher education course: Collaboration between Singapore and Finland teacher educators
This study examines how an online cross-cultural lesson study project can promote collaborations between two teacher educators, one works in Singapore and the other in Finland, to explore how they themselves can grow professionally and foster student learning when jointly studying teaching a graduate course for in-service teachers. The interrelated trifold aims of the lesson study include: (1) making the students’ thinking explicit via classroom assessment, (2) engaging students in the critical analysis on alternative perspectives for reflecting upon their professional practices, and (3) provide feedback to the teacher educators on how to help students find relevance between various theories and practice. The initial findings show that this online cross-cultural lesson study can make the aims above attainable, and contribute to teacher educators’ professional growth in the process of (1) explicating (understanding in dialogue), (2) interpreting (student learning evidence collectively), (3) negotiating (alternative cultural and pedagogical perspectives), and (4) perspective-taking.
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Online lesson study
DEEP DIVE - Single Paper Roundtable
Heng
Singapore
Challenging Online Reflective Lesson Study: Case of Sarangani Elementary Teachers
The pandemic and economic challenges of the country have caused great distress among Philippine teachers who were not trained to conduct learning other than the classroom. Teachers worry about whether learning will take place under a modular with limited synchronous teaching modality. This research focused on one team of public elementary school teachers who volunteered to embark on reflective lesson study (RLS) online as part of their continuous professional development. But is it possible to bring elements of RLS online? The study aims to narrate how RLS was modified to fit an online setting, what RLS elements need modification, and how participating teachers viewed online collaborative inquiry. The RLS structure was a localization of a structure from a Japanese school. The professional development elements were a grasp of professional identities, designing shared vision of online teaching and learning, and contextualizing the module to meet the group's research theme.
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Online lesson study
DEEP DIVE - Single Paper Roundtable
Pauline Anne Therese Mangulabnan
Japan
B: LS Sharecase
Study on effective teaching method to minimize misunderstanding about insects’ characteristics for pre-service lower secondary teachers in TECs
This study aims to identify and eliminate student teachers’ misunderstanding about insects, and to compare the effectiveness between the Inquiry-Based Learning approach (IBL) and Traditional Method (TM). Forty-eight student teachers of the first-year bachelor degree program studying in 2nd semester of academic year 2018-2019 at PTEC were separated into IBL group and TM group for this study. Pre-test, post-test, and questionnaire were used to identify misunderstanding and effectiveness of teaching methods. The result showed that there was no significant deference between effectiveness of the two teaching methods. Although, misunderstanding about the common characteristics of insects (mainly the amount of legs and body segments) remained in each group, the percentage in TM group was still higher with less improvement in scientific skills. It can be concluded that IBL is one of the most effective teaching methods to minimize misunderstanding about characteristics of insects and to improve science learning skills.
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Effective lesson study practice
HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Pechleakhna NAK
Cambodia
Ignites
The use of logical reasoning tasks to develop students’ giftedness in ESL lessons
Logical reasoning is one of the key traits that gifted children possess. Logical reasoning is a complex weave of abilities that help students get someone's point, generate reasons for their own point, evaluate the reasons given by others. Therefore, logical reasoning tasks can be a diverse source to develop students’ argumentative and critical thinking skills and provide students with a challenge that can motivate them to grow. The aim of the research: to investigate to what extent logical reasoning tasks help to develop students’ giftedness in ESL lessons through the development of argumentative and critical thinking skills. The research instruments included the interview, the observation and the survey. The preliminary results show that logical reasoning tasks improve students’ argumentative skill and activate critical thinking as students’ justification of their own opinion has become more confident and fluent, student analyze information faster and use stronger arguments.
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Issues of equity
BURST - Ignites
Alikulova Xeniya
Live Q and A
1220 - 1240
Singapore Time
A: Papers
B: LS Sharecase
1240 - 1250
Singapore Time
Break
Session 3
1250 - 1330
Singapore Time
Poster Session
How does collaborative planning help improve teachers' teaching skills?
The significance of the topic is that the teacher is currently experiencing some difficulty in implementing the updated educational program in the Republic of Kazakhstan. That is why social media, various professional publications, and television programs have the opposite opinion of the new education system. The reason for this is that the school teacher is still underdeveloped, which can be seen in the comments he gives in social networks, the text messages sent during the contact, and the consultations and lessons he gives during post-competitive support.
We wanted to examine the rationale behind the importance of the study through the professional analysis of foreign scholars, such as Dr. Elizabeth Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Dennis Jaffe and Cynthia Scott.These scientists have shown that the perception of change by a person has four main stages. That is, denial, opposition, research and acceptance.
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Effective lesson study practice
BURST - Poster Presentations
ZHANIYA OPANOVA
The Formation of Collaborative Lesson Study in Teaching Practice in Japan with a Focus on its Impact on Mentor Teachers.
This study aims to clarify the requirements for collaborative lesson study through an examination of the effect of lesson study teaching practice on mentor teachers in Japan based on the results of questionnaires and interviews, particularly on elementary school mentor teachers. From our research, we found that mentor teachers who collaborated with student teachers through practical teaching centered on lesson study and reflect on their own practice through practical teaching leads to promotion of lesson study and lesson improvement. The interviews revealed certain key information: first, the mentor would encourage the student teacher to participate in the lesson study, and thus, tried to build a collaborative relationship between them; and second, mentor teachers sometimes received questions from student teachers that caused the mentors to reflect on their lesson practice, which led to actual lesson improvement. These results suggest that mentor teachers promote the success of collaborative lesson study culture.
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Role of research
BURST - Poster Presentations
Atsushi Sakamoto
Japan
How can webquest develop students ' divergent thinking skills in an online lesson?
This paper offers a preliminary study of the impact of a web quest on the development of divergent thinking in high school students on distance learning in the context of a pandemic. It was important to conduct this research to make sure that the web quest used is reliable. The study was conducted at a school in Almaty in September 2020. 24 students in the 8th grade were selected as the sample size. The method of comparing the results of pre and post tests was applied. Two qualities of divergence were evaluated: originality and fluency. The positive impact of the web quest on students ' divergent thinking was found out. Comparison of pre and post tests and the results of the study showed a positive trend in changing the level of development of divergence qualities-fluency and originality, using immersion in the problematic situation of a web quest.
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Online lesson study
BURST - Poster Presentations
Svetlana
Kazakhstan
Home-based Learning Community(HBLC) Development using online lesson study and Professional Learning Community(PLC) during the COVID-19 crisis. Plearnpattana Secondary School, Thailand
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected Thailand. All schools must close. Collaborative-Active Learning and No One Left Behind are consistent aims at Plearnpattana which we combined with HBLC. HBLC was online Collaborative-Active Learning that was taught from teachers’ homes to students’ homes via applications during school time. HBLC was composed of 3 steps: 1) Applications: Zoom with breakout feature, Padlet, Mentimeter, Nearpod and Google Slides were prepared for HBLC. 2) Collaborative-Active Learning started using the applications. The online lesson study was composed of 3 steps: a) analyze & planning curriculum. b) teaching & observation. c) reflection & redesign; ensure that no one is left behind. PLC members consisted of teachers, co-teachers, mentors, experts, principals, etc. Each step of the online lesson study involved PLC members on the Zoom application everywhere and every time. 3) After that, Online PLC member and parents discussed the student’s learning outcomes and the development approach.
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Online lesson study
BURST - Poster Presentations
Phurithat Chaiwattanakunn
Thailand
Methods using the CLIL method in geography classes to develop pronunciation, listening, and writing skills.
This article summarizes the results of a study of geography teachers conducted by in seventh grade based on CLIL. The article explains how the work, about mistakes made during work, about the work done on their restoration and the results of work. For classroom exploration, detailed joint work of each teacher to achieve this result. When joint planning, the teachers composed assignments and exercises, from simple level to complex, methods were used to help students develop listening, speaking, writing and reading skills. The article reflects the results of the work of teachers, which are that students of the Russian class, studying the subject of geography in the Kazakh language, show good results. Research team members cited the work of prominent authors. The collaboration was successful.
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Online lesson study
BURST - Poster Presentations
Gulzhan
Kazakhstan
Motivation to study is one of characteristics of a good learner. How to raise learners’ motivation during remote learning?
Purpose The purpose of Lesson study is to find out what makes 11th grade students of the NIS school to lose interests for study, what can motivate them, who can encourage students better, teachers, parents or they themselves.
The problem: When teachers list characteristics of a good learner they say about motivation as one of the most important factors in their success at school. However, during remote education many types of stimulation do not work as in a traditional classroom, so frustrating with challenges of remote learning, students lose motivation to study.
Methodology: Survey among 11th grade students was conducted, Lesson study teachers plan, conduct and provide observations of 11th grade lessons, then discuss the results of observations.
Findings will be presented when lesson study cycle is completed.
Conclusion: Educators need to know what two main types of motivation: intrinsic or extrinsic stimulate our learners better.
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Online lesson study
BURST - Poster Presentations
Jumatayeva Raushan
Kazakhstan
How does the epidemic of COVID-19 affect physical education teachers’ beliefs through distance education?
The purpose of this study was to examine the following three research questions; (1) How does physical education teachers’ perspectives toper their subject change through distance education? (2) How does physical education teachers’ perspectives on their role change through distance education? (3) How does physical education teachers identify their professional development through online lesson study?
The main results as follows: (1) It became clear that it was an opportunity to aim for lessons that emphasize the balance of ability development from the skill-based lessons by implementing distance education. (2) The recognition that the subject of physical education is significantly related to the children’s health greatly influences the transformation of the teacher's perspectives on the specialty of the subject as a health supporter. (3) It was also suggested that the teachers’ beliefs and past experiences influenced the response to new methods for online lesson study.
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Online lesson study
BURST - Poster Presentations
Minako Isomura
Japan
Development of Science Process Skills in Online Mode: A Lesson Study
The study is to explore how students describe their experiences and learning with the utilization of lesson study in attaining scientific skills through collaborations and other teacher made activities in the new normal setting. Science subjects have become the greatest contributors in other learning areas because it activates more the critical and logical thinking analysis of the learners so that it must be given so much emphasis by developing more efficient strategies for student's learning development.
A qualitative phenomenological approach will be used. Semi structured interviews, observations, and document analysis will be conducted with 3 teachers and students who will undergo under lesson study in their respective online classrooms.
The result may deem necessary in order to come up a suitable intervention program and or validation of resource materials that will help teachers and learners to achieve the highest levels of their understanding of particular lessons.
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Online lesson study
BURST - Poster Presentations
Reyneth Renan P. Matta
Philippines
Live Q and A
1330 - 1350
Singapore Time
1350 - 1405
Singapore Time
Break
Session 4
1405 - 1535
Singapore Time
Invited Plenary LIVE
Elevating Student Equity through Effective Research-based and Learning
Chair:
Professor Manabu Sato
Presenters:
Sumar Hendayana: Professor, Indonesian University of Education, Indonesia
Eric Cheng: Associate Professor, Education University of Hong Kong
Anunthaborasakul Athapol: Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Sarkar Arani Mohammmad Reza: Associate Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
1535 - 1550
Singapore Time
Break
Session 5
1550 - 1710
Singapore Time
A: WALS Talks
The Tools of Collaboration on Professional Learning Community in Malaysia
The Professional Learning Community is a platform for teachers to collaborate among them. The discussion is on planning, observing and reflecting about teaching and learning process. The purposes of this collaboration are monitoring the learning process of students to be more focused and the development of students to ensure the student development. To achieve this goal, the Ministry of Education has developed a "PLC Kit" to help teachers as a guide to create culture of collaborative practices. Furthermore, the objective of this writing is to discuss on collaboration practices based on PLC Kit in the teaching and learning process. There are 13 strategies or collaborative tools discussed which are Performance Dialogue, Book Club, Teacher Learning Group, Video Criticism, Learning Tour, Peer Guidance, Lesson Study, Teacher Sharing Session, Data Analysis, Critical Partner Group, Induction and Mentoring of New Teachers, Group Problem Solving, Horizontal Team and Vertical Team. These strategies have an impact on the improvement of student’s learning and teacher’s pedagogy by focusing on student development to ensure student development.
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Role of research
BURST - WALS Talks
zanatonhiksan
Malaysia
Toward an Understanding of the Conditions and Constraints on Groups of Lesson Designers: A Comparative study
This project aims to construct a theoretical framework for the (international) comparison of lesson studies. To do this, the study focuses on the lesson design process, one part of lesson studies, comparing the processes of designers (prospective teachers) at three universities in Japan and one in Thailand. The present study attempts to reveal which conditions and constraints the process is subject to, and what form it ultimately takes. The praxeology and the levels of determination are used as its framework based on the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic. The results are as follows: First, regarding the design of the mathematical praxeology, results show that there are differences at lower levels of determination such as the domain. Second, it was found that influence at the didactic level wherein no consensus was formed among participants. Finally, the potential for the format of lesson plan was shown to greatly affect the process.
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Issues of equity
BURST - WALS Talks
Toru Hayata
Japan
Personalization that leads to equity. Singularity for equitable reality.
A growing number of issues in the 21st century reality force educators, scientist to change their vision of the contemporary education and find new ways of learning, new approaches that will prepare young people for life as early as it possible. The intention of the research to reconsider, modify and test Discipline-based inquiry to realize the concept Singularity on English classes to foster learner’s intellectual engagement in the condition of distance learning.
What are the findings by the moment in terms of realization Singularity in my lessons:
1. Modifying Discipline-based inquiry into the Research-based project with identification of research questions derived from the area of their future professions
2. Designing Personalized-Learning Plan with learning SMART-goal
3. Testing Personalization through: extension, advancing, challenging goal setting, scaffolding, self-regulation and development of soft-skills.
The most important consequence of the work we are doing with my learners: develop competencies through a process of inquiry and discovery, they create new knowledge, familiarize how to make discoveries through inquiry, reflection, exploration, and make first step in the direction of their future professions
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Role of research
BURST - WALS Talks
Nazym Tabarak
Kazakhstan
B: Sharecases
How to develop student's research skills in conditions of distance learning?
This school study is associated with the problem of students’ research skills development in Nazarbayev Intellectual School PhM, (Uralsk, Republic of Kazakhstan) during distance learning.
The objective of this research – to develop and present complex of exercises, describe its application on online lessons, provide advantages and disadvantages of developing research skills for online teaching improvement.
The study is conducted with 9th grade students.
The research methods are theoretical analysis of literature and development of exercises.
Practical method includes learning experiment - application of exercises during online lessons and analysis of students' works.
First step included literature review and exercises development.
Second step involved selection of 24 students and teacher who applied the complex of exercises for students’ research skills development.
Research has the following results:
created set of exercises encourages the development of research skills, makes possible to manage educational resources, increases motivation to the subject.
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Online lesson study
HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
Oral Kdirshayev
Kazakhstan
Scaffolding Scientific Oral Discourse Using Online Tools
In the efforts of strengthening digital literacy amongst primary school students, schools are increasingly focusing on the use of blended learning as a regular feature in future schooling experience. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in accelerated moves in the nation’s digital literacy plans in constituting a seamless online learning experience both in school and at home.
With the existing ‘Collaborative Inquiry’ school-wide pedagogy adopted by our school in 2017, this ‘new normal’ closes the alignment of various instructional approaches such as the 5E model and continues to help learners develop 21st century skills. In the visions set for the Education Master Plans in Singapore, “Thinking Schools, Leaning Nation”, we have come a long way in enabling the country to compete and stay ahead in an ever changing world, and equipping its workforce for a knowledge-based economy in the future.
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Online lesson study
HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
SALBIAH BINTE ISHAK
Singapore
Understanding Inclusive Relationships among Quadrilaterals by School based Picture Book
The learning objective about inclusive relationship among Quadrilaterals has launched in the official curriculum guide in 2017. Teachers may illustrate the inclusion relations between different types of quadrilaterals by using the diagrams, such as Venn diagrams or tree diagrams. (EDB, 2017) The Van Hiele Model of Geomatic thinking stated that children at Level 2 can draw a logical map of parallelograms. The inclusive relationship can be clarified in this state.
This study investigated how picture books help students understanding the inclusive relationships among quadrilaterals. An experimental groups’ students will read a school based picture book while control groups’ students will follow the teaching procedure in the school mathematics book.
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Online lesson study
HUDDLE - Lesson Study Sharecase
wingyingyeung
C: Open Lesson from Indonesia
Facilitator: Arif Hidayat
Reflection: Prof. Sumar Hendayana
1550 - 1610
1610 - 1630
Live Q and A
1715 - 1735
Singapore Time
A: WALS Talks
B: Sharecases
Closing
1740 - 1820
Singapore Time