Newsletter | March 2023

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

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 💬

💬 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

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.

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 […]