Lesson Study Café: Join us on 21st March, 19:00 (CET)

Lesson Study Café: Join us on 21st March, 19:00 (CET)

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

WALS Task Force

WALS Task Force

3 Task forces have been setup to work on the following areas: Members Benefit Website Conference and Regional Alliances Their preliminary reports are available for viewing below. Tasks Force 1:Member Benefits Task Force 2:Website Task Force 3:Conference & Regional Alliances Members of WALS are welcome to volunteer or give their comments/feedbacks by submitting the forms below.

Newsletter | July 2022

Newsletter | July 2022

Join WALS 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, September 20-22 Dear WALS member Meet new Lesson Study colleagues at WALS 2022! More than 250 presentations, from 28 countries have been submitted for the Malaysia conference! The Host Organizing Committee, led by Prof. Ts. Dr. Mohamad Sattar Rasul and Associate Prof. Dr. Zanaton Hj. Ikhsan, has planned three days of powerful keynotes and […]

Upcoming Event: School as Learning Community International Conference (free event, requires registration)

Upcoming Event: School as Learning Community International Conference (free event, requires registration)

Dear WALS Colleagues The 9th International Conference on Communities of Learning will be held on March 4-6, 2022. Last year’s 8th conference was attended by 2100 participants from 31 countries and regions. This year’s theme is “Equitable Education and Re-Innovation of Learning of School as Learning Communities: Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic”. Attached is a flyer for the conference. There is no […]