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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 […]