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 […]
This webinar presents the features and strategies of networking theories to investigate lesson study based on the “Special Issue: Networking theories for understanding and guiding Lesson Study” of International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies (IJLLS) 2023, Volume 12 Issue 1.
In order to reach a wider worldwide audience, the live session has been cancelled but we are delighted to announce that a pre-recorded event focusing on the work of CANMEE will be available for WALS members at a date to be announced very soon.
The California network—CANMEE—is striving to actualize equity in mathematics learning by designing lessons for powerful learning. We learn together by identifying focal students, writing equity-based research themes, and learning with and from students, teachers, and mathematics and equity commentators
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 (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. […]
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 […]
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 […]