Networking theories for understanding and guiding Lesson Study Lesson Study (LS) has been adopted and adapted in different global settings. The effects of LS on students’ learning, teachers’ learning, and professional learning community building have been widely documented, but exploration of the theories that underpin LS remains an emergent field of study. In the recent ICMI Study 25 conference proceedings […]

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Tentative Title: Digital technologies, online learning, and lesson and learning study Rongjin Huang, Middle Tennessee State University, USANina Helgevold, University of Stavanger, NorwayJean Lang, University of Exeter, UK How various technologies can be used to strengthen lesson and learning study (LLS) and support of scaling up and sustaining LLS has become an emerging field to explore (Skultety et al., 2017; […]

The PhD students and early career researchers group is launching an online writing bootcamp. This will take the form of small groups interested in related topics working independently on their writing concerns, at their own time and pace. A first meeting will be held on Wednesday June 3rd.  Time23:00, Tokyo time16:00, Amsterdam07:00, San Franciscoor see HERE). If you are a PhD student/early career […]

Dear Colleagues, With great reluctance it has been decided that WALS 2020 will not be able to go ahead as planned in December 2020. This is because of continuing uncertainties arising from global effects of the Covid19 pandemic. The conference is therefore cancelled. This decision has been taken with sadness on all sides as we know so many people were […]

Collaborative Lesson Study Malta (CLeStuM) is a teacher professional development initiative housed within the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta. Recently, this initiative was involved in an Art Lesson Study held at Stella Maris College Junior School (Gżira). Lesson study is an ongoing professional learning approach widely used in Japan and is often attributed as an important tool […]

The Free University of Bolzano organised this year’s CARN D.A.CH. Conference at the Campus Brixen. Claudia Mewald from the University College of Teacher Education organized a symposium focussing on Lesson Study projects carried out in the context of “Autonomous learning with authentic learning materials on interactive websites for language learning”. Elisabeth Mürwald-Scheifinger presented her Lesson Study project called “See how […]

The Faculty of Education (University of Malta) has officially launched CLeStuM (www.clestum.eu), a website which aims to support Maltese primary and secondary schools introducing Lesson Study. Lesson Study is a continuing professional development initiative for all educators. CLeStuM is full of information, resources and exemplars of lesson studies carried out in Maltese schools over the past two years. This Faculty […]

The University of Stavanger (Norway) and University of Malawi (Malawi) have since 2013 been collaborating in several development projects using Lesson Study with the aim of improving the quality and capacity of Malawi mathematics education. The most recent project is “Strengthening numeracy in early years primary education through professional development of teachers”, sponsored by The Norwegian Program for Capacity Development […]

Congratulations to our longstanding ExCo member Manabu Sato who has been given the prestigious Chinese Mingyuan Award for Education. This is the China equivalent of a Nobel prize. (This year’s only other recipient is U.S. educator Howard Gardner). This huge acknowledgement of and recognition for the sustained impact of Manabu’s work on education in China and across the world is […]

Teachers interested in Lesson Study were invited to experience two open research lessons at the practice school of the University College of Teacher Education in Lower Austria. A vivid exchange of ideas on the pupils’ learning during the competence-oriented units “The Mixed-up Chameleon” and “Das Elfchen” followed a practical and theoretical discussion of the lessons guided by the teachers, who […]

Under the name ‘Pelatihan Lesson Study untuk Guru Taman Kanak-Kanak Kota Bandung’ the Educational Psychology department of the Graduate School of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) organized a training Lesson Study for kindergarten teachers in the area of Bandung city on Friday 4 October 2019. The head of the department, Dr. Tina Hayati Dahlan invited six teams of teachers from Islamic […]

Learn more here: bit.ly/EJEfreetrial You can read all the latest themed issue on: Integrating Higher Education and University-Business Cooperation Citizens, Learners and Workers in a Complex, Changing World Education and Social Transformation And much more! Do you have more questions? Contact the joint editors:Janey Looney, looney@eiesp.orgRichard Desjardins, eje.desjardins@live.com

Due to the partnership between Routledge and WALS for the WALS-Routledge Lesson Study book series: www.routledge.com/WALS-Routledge-Lesson-Study-Series/book-series/WLSS WALS members can take advantage of the 25% discount to purchase the books in the Series using the discount code. Enjoy 25% discount with discount code WALS25 The 11 books published in the series are:1. Stepping Up Lesson Study: An Educator’s Guide to Deeper […]

A handbook for Lesson Study in German language with the title “Lesson Study — Das Handbuch für kollaborative Unterrichtsentwicklung und Lernforschung” was published by StudienVerlag in Innsbruck, Austria. The handbook, initiated by the lesson study research group at the University College of Teacher Education in Lower Austria, features three chapters about the HOW, WHY and WHAT in lesson study. It […]

Texas USA Lesson Study (TXLS) is an initiative of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and is implemented through hubs of the state’s education service centers (ESCs) that provide facilitators to teachers conducting lesson study. Yarema and Gee were facilitators in ESC Regions 14 and 15. Some ESCs offer teachers the option of beginning the process during the summer, meeting about […]

WALS has set aside some funds to bear the cost of the registration fee for up to 3 PhD student presenters at WALS Conference 2019. Kindly note the following: This funding is available only to PhD student presenters and capped at a maximum number of 3. Sponsorship will only be given to those from OECD linked (Developing) countries. The sponsorship […]

Image above: Educators from different parts of the Philippines attend the first national convention on Lesson Study at UP NISMED. Three hundred and thirty teachers, school administrators, educators, and research students from all over the country attended the first national convention on Lesson Study in the Philippines hosted by the Philippine Association of Lesson and Learning Studies, Inc. (PALS) and […]