JICA-IMPULS Effort in Establishing School-wide Lesson Study Using CLR in Cambodia Schools.
Date: 14 December 2024
Time:
1000 – 1100 GMT
0200 – 0300 San Francisco, CA, USA
0400 – 0500 Chicago, IL, USA
1000 – 1100 London, United Kingdom
1100 – 1200 Amsterdam, Netherlands | Stockholm, Sweden | Zürich, Switzerland
1800 – 1900 Singapore
1900 – 2000 Tokyo, Japan
The first of a series of two webinars presented by two Cambodian university lectures reports how their view of lesson study shifted by participating in the training sessions and how they support attached school teachers in implementing the ideas to prepare for their research lesson, the first effort to conduct school-wide research lessons at their schools.
In 2024, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) initiated a new project, Project for Strengthening Teacher Education Colleges for Basic Education Quality (S-TEC), which aims to establish a continuous cycle for improving primary and lower secondary education in mathematics and science at two leading teacher education institutes in Cambodia, Phnom Penh Teacher Education College (PTEC) and Battambang Teacher Education College (BTEC), along with their attached elementary and lower secondary schools, by using Lesson Study. Although JICA has been supporting PTEC and BTEC, along with other schools in Cambodia, to use lesson studies for years, the S-TEC project has decided to employ the school-wide Collaborative Lesson Research (CLR) model of Lesson Study to achieve significant impacts on teaching practice and student learning at the project schools.
Chairperson
Akihiko Takahashi (United States/Japan) is a member of the International Math-teacher Professionalization Using Lesson Study (IMPULS) and a member of the Lesson Study Alliance, who supports the S-TEC project by guiding them to establish school-wide CLR.
Speakers
SIN Sokunthea is a lecturer at the Mathematics Department, Phnom Penh Teacher Education College. During the three-week intensive session led by the IMPULS in the fall of 2024, she worked as a grade 3 mathematics team consisting of PTEC and BTEC lecturers and attached school teachers to design a research lesson proposal employing a pedagogical approach teaching through Problem-solving to nurture Cambodian students become independent problem solvers.
HENG Tola is a lecturer at the Science Department, Battambang Teacher Education College (BTEC). During the three-week intensive session led by the IMPULS in the fall of 2024, she worked as a grade 3 and 4 Science teams consisting of PTEC and BTEC lecturers and attached school teachers to design a research lesson proposal employing a pedagogical approach teaching through Problem-solving to nurture Cambodian students become proactive classroom with scientific thinking.
