The first Lausanne Lesson Study International Conference organised by Lausanne Laboratory Lesson Study (3LS, www.hepl.ch/3LS) took place from 6-8 June, 2018 in Lausanne, Switzerland. With the theme of “Lesson Study Diversity: Concepts, Practices and Impacts”, the event brought together 60 participants- teachers, school administrators, educators and researchers- from 11 countries. The event which provided a platform to describe and question […]
Top image: Christine Lee with some of the Lesson Study Research Group at University of Stavanger (Elaine Munthe, Anne Mette Karlsen, Gro Naesheim-Bjorkvik, Rebecca Ann Stuvland, Christine Lee, Arne Jakobsen, Nina Helgevold) The Lesson Study@University of Stavanger group hosted Christine Lee, National Institute of Education, Singapore, for 2 weeks this spring. What a wonderful opportunity to share, discuss, and learn! […]
From 6 to 8 June 2018, La HEP Vaud welcomes The Congress of International Lesson Study. This Congress aims to describe and question the different adaptations of this approach in Europe. Lesson Study will be put under the microscope in Lausanne The Congress organized in June 2018 in Lausanne aims to describe and question the different adaptations of this approach […]
This webinar was Chaired by Prof Catherine Lewis, Research Professor at the Department of Education at Mills College Oakland, California and presented by Dr Shelley Friedkin, also of Mills College and Assistant Professor Sharon Dotger of Syracuse University. This webinar focused on two tools useful for making student thinking visible: journals (notebooks) and board writing (bansho). The presenters shared a…...
Given the success of the 1st Lesson Study Immersion Programme in Tokyo, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences (Zwolle, the Netherlands) is currently organizing a 2nd and similar study visit to Beijing and the WALS 2018 to learn about and experience how Chinese Lesson Study works. Last November 2017 a group of twenty Dutch teachers and researchers participated in a three-day […]
This year’s annual American Educational Research Association (AERA 2018) conference was held in New York City (April 13-17). With over 15.000 participants, this conference belongs to one of the biggest educational research conferences in the world covering a broad variety of educational topics. Different Lesson Study (LS) researchers from various countries were participating as well, presenting their work in different […]
Dear WALS members everywhere Welcome to the April 2018 Newsletter. My thanks to all the WALS portfolio holders, Council members and the WALS office staff who have been busy developing this year’s programme. The first 2018 Issue of the International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies hit the WALS theme of 2018 on the head with its focus on the […]
From Friday, March 9 through to Sunday, March 11, we held our first WALS “slow chat” on twitter. Hosted by Sharon Dotger (Syracuse University, USA), the chat engaged 70 participants from 8 countries. The discussion focused on coaching or facilitating lesson study teams. We talked about the importance of establishing trusting collaborations while navigating tough conversations among participants with different […]
The National Center for Educational Development (NCED) at Qatar University College of Education (QU-CED) held the Second Lesson Study Project forum recently, aiming to highlight the progress and accomplishments of the project during the past four years. The event was organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and sponsored by Marubeni Company. It is part of […]
Lesson Study and Learning Study have been implemented increasingly in initial teacher training as well as in continuous professional development in Austria. Universities as well as colleges of teacher education all over Austria make use of Lesson Study in their educational research and they offer courses about Lesson Study on a regular basis. Lesson Study is used intensively in the […]
Jean Lang has worked with Pete Dudley to co-lead a Lesson Study project across London which has been funded by the Greater London Authority. This project has involved over 90 schools and is currently running into its 5th year with schools now taking the lead in running 2 Lesson Study Hubs based in the London Boroughs of Redbridge and Croydon. […]
We have recently completed a three-year study (2013-17) supported by a Brunei Research Council (BRC08) grant involving 150 teachers of four curriculum areas from government primary and secondary schools to develop a research-based professional development model for 21st century teaching and learning (21CTL). The model engages teachers in cycles of Lesson Study to design, teach and review learning activities that […]
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Lesson Study is becoming a more familiar and widely used model of teacher education in the Republic of Ireland (ROI). For a number of years, Lesson Study has been included in initial teacher education at primary level (e.g. Corcoran (2007); Leavy and Hourigan (2016)) and, more recently, at post-primary level. A number of small scale studies have introduced Lesson Study […]
