Facilitating Lesson Study: facilitator moves, ideas and structures
Facilitation takes many different forms in Lesson Study across the globe. This webinar brings together examples of different forms of facilitation from Norway, Scotland, Switzerland and the United States. We will share how facilitators act, the moves they make and the resources they utilise to start a wider discussion on facilitating the facilitator in Lesson Study.
Recorded presentations release May 2nd
Tuesday 9th May (live discussion online) at the following times:
13:00 pm EDT
06:00 pm GMT
19:00 pm CET
Discussants
Dr. Sharon Dotger is an associate professor of science education in the Syracuse University School of Education and the faculty director of teacher education and undergraduate studies.
She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Lesson and Learning Studies and teaches courses in science methods and curriculum, learning theory, teacher professional development, and science education research.
Pia-Ingrid Hoznour is a secondary school teacher in Western Switzerland where she teaches Science, Maths, English and History. She also teachers at Lausanne Teacher University (HEP VD) where she specialises in biology didactics.
Pia trains in-school facilitators to lead Lesson Study. Her research focuses on teachers, students, and pupils’ conceptions of teaching and learning, through the parallels between scientific methods and creative processes. She has developed innovative tools linked to Lesson Study facilitation, including drawing and speech analysis.
Dr. Anne Mette Færøyvik Karlsen is an associate professor of Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. She is a Lecturer in Educational Leadership and Educational Politics, and is currently professionally responsible for two courses that form part of a new master’ program in Educational Leadership at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.
Her research work focuses on teachers’ professional learning, specifically in the context of Lesson Study, and her studies have explored the importance of pupil voice, teachers’ professional noticing and observations of students’ learning for teacher learning.
Dr. John Paul Mynott is a senior lecturer and Head of Initial Teacher Education at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His teaching focuses on practitioner enquiry, interdisciplinary learning within the curriculum, the expressive arts and educational leadership.
His research focuses are Lesson Study, collaboration, facilitation and technology enhanced teacher education. Within the context of Lesson Study his recent work has explored collaboration at different levels within the Lesson Study cycle.
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