WALS 2023 Conference
Zwolle, the Netherlands November 27-29, 2023 WALS 2023 has ended and we appreciate and thank everyone involved! PhD Day Photos Day 1 Photos Day 2 Photos Day 3 Photos
Newsletter | October 2023
Dear WALS Member, Exciting plans are unfolding for the November 27-29 WALS Conference in Zwolle, Netherlands! In addition to powerful keynotes each day, we look forward to spotlight sessions every day, where you can hear about: Lesson Study in Initial Teacher Education, from authors of a new WALS-Routledge book How lesson study protects democracy and supports post-pandemic recovery, through its […]
SLC International Conference celebrated its 10th anniversary!
We were very honored to host more than 2,000 participants at the 10th International Conference of School as Learning Community held in Tokyo, March 3-5, 2023. Participants from 31 different countries and areas shared their practices, struggles, and excitements in SLC at the conference. What is School as Learning Community (SLC)? SLC is a set of a vision, philosophies and […]
Facilitating Lesson Study: facilitator moves, ideas and structures
Facilitation takes many different forms in Lesson Study across the globe. This webinar brings together examples of different forms of facilitation from Norway, Scotland, Switzerland and the United States. We will share how facilitators act, the moves they make and the resources they utilise to start a wider discussion on facilitating the facilitator in Lesson Study. Recorded presentations release May…...
Lesson Study in Gifted Education
Meet a teacher and a teacher educator who will report about how a group of MA degree students introduced Lesson Study in gifted education in their schools and register for an online question and answer session on 21st April, so that you can learn more about their experiences. Online recordings of presentations are available from April 18th, 2023. Live Q and…...
Emerging Voices in Lesson Studies
Date and Time 8th April 2023 06:00 San Francisco15:00 Central European Time19:00 Kazakhstan21:00 Singapore22:00 Tokyo About this Webinar Chair: Dr. Sui Lin Goei (VU Amsterdam/Windesheim University, Netherlands) Discussiant: Dr. Jongsung Kim (Hiroshima University, Japan) & Dr. Nomvuyo Thobela (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Lesson Study has also grown in popularity as a research topic and as research methodology among doctoral…...
IMPULS mathematics lesson study course July 10-12, 2023
IMPULS (International Math-teacher Professionalization Using Lesson Study) has offered a mathematics lesson study immersion program in Japan for a decade, and recently began offering an online course. Taught by Akihiko Takahashi and Tad Watanabe, the course is designed for local teams of up to 10 educators, including two representatives from each team who participate in the 6-8 hour synchronous course. […]
Lesson Study Café: Join us on 21st March, 19:00 (CET)
The next Lesson Study Café will happen in 21st March 2023. In this session, Laurie Jacques from University College London, UK, will be discussing her recently completed PhD study, which focused on developing a model of lesson study to explore teachers’ construction of design principles and pedagogical practices as they worked collaboratively to explore a novel form of mathematics task. Join Laurie […]
School leaders of Lesson Study. What have we learned about how to develop and sustain Lesson Study worldwide?
Hear from teachers and senior leaders from schools in England, Malta, Kazakhstan and Brunei about how they have introduced and sustained Lesson Study practice in their schools and register for an online question and answer session on 28th March, so that you can learn more about their experiences. Online recordings of presentations available now. Live Q and A on 28th March…...
Newsletter | March 2023
Dear WALS member, I begin with a major announcement: we must change the date and place of the WALS 2023 conference. WALS 2023 will now be held during late November or early December 2023, in a European location. The new dates and venue are being finalized and will be announced by March 15. The conference will be face-to-face with an […]
WALS Webinar Programme 2023
All members of WALS can access live and recorded webinars which are saved on the website for future viewing. Look out for future notifications on the WALS website and our Twitter and Facebook pages which will give you further information and links to register. Six very interesting events have already been planned for this year, so please save the dates and […]
💬 Lesson Study Café 💬
Grab a cup of coffee ☕ and join us virtually for a casual chat to talk about issues concerning your research, and collaboratively seek ways to address them. 🤝 Every session will focus on one specific theme/topic and will be led by one PhD student or early career researcher (ECR). Examples of themes include the use of textbooks, teachers’ reflection […]
Norwegian educators visiting schools in Malta on lesson study
Collaborative Lesson Study Malta (CLeStuM) hosted four Norwegian secondary school educators – two school leaders, a deputy school leader and a teacher from Høyland and Bogafjell secondary schools – to discuss the initiation, development and support for sustaining lesson studies within schools in Malta. The aim of this visit was to compare and contrast lesson study experiences, to share lesson […]
New Podcast. Continuous Improvement Lesson Study: A Model of Mathematics Teacher Educator Professional Development.
A group of mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) began a lesson study to develop a research-based lesson to engage elementary preservice teachers with professional teacher noticing within the context of multidigit multiplication. Afterward, MTEs continued teaching and revising the lesson, developing an integrated process that combined lesson study with the continuous improvement model. This article introduces the continuous improvement lesson study […]
Using Lesson Study to Support Equity in Mathematics
A Working Group launches Nov 17-20 at PME-NA. Virtual attendance possible. Contact: Melissa Soto melissa.soto@sdsu.edu
Educators’ Learning from Lesson Study – About the book and how you can write the next one
This book, mostly by teachers, describes what they learned from lesson study about mathematics, about lesson design, about student thinking, and about teacher collaboration and leadership.
Thank you all for a successful WALS 2022!
After 2 years of Covid-19. WALS International Conference 2022 was hosted successfully in Malaysia by UKM. image source: Facebook of UKM.
Lesson Study NL Hybrid Research Meeting 2 November 2022, 0900-1200 CEST
Dear friend of Lesson Study NL, Prior to the 6th Lesson Study NL conference on Wednesday 2 November 2022 (09.00–12.00 CEST), Lesson Study NL traditionally organises a research meeting where we present our recent research on Lesson Study. The topic is Dutch Phd and Early Career Research. The meeting is organized in a hybrid manner and will be held at Windesheim […]