Description
Book SynopsisThis resource empowers readers to oppose reform efforts that minimize teacher agency by offering an evidence-based approach to teacher-led instructional improvement. The text provides structures for attending to students' interests, knowledge, and values when planning, teaching, reflecting, and revising instruction.
Table of Contents
- Foreword Ellin Oliver Keene
- Introduction
- Lesson Study in a Turnaround School
- An Overview of Lesson Study
- Impact of Lesson Study on Student Learning
- About This Book
- Note
- PART I: LESSON STUDY AS RESPONSIVE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
- 1. Engaging in Lesson Study: Risk-Taking, Resilience, and ReVisioning
- Perpetual Motion: Unrelenting Improvement of Teaching and Learning
- Risk and Reward: Professional Growth through Lesson Study
- Valuing Teaching and Teachers
- Context Matters
- Reflect and Respond
- 2. Challenging Norms of Privacy and Isolation
- Benefits of Collaboration
- Challenges to Collaboration
- Shared Expectations
- Supporting, Scheduling, and Sustaining the Work
- Overcoming Privacy and Isolation
- Reflect and Respond
- 3. Lesson Study as Contextualized Learning
- Why Context Matters
- Lesson Study in Varying Contexts
- Supporting a Positive Culture for Teaching
- Reflect and Respond
- PART II: LAYERS OF THE LESSON STUDY PROCESS
- 4. Purposeful Planning: Teachers as Designers
- Collective Agency and Innovation
- Creating a Vision for the Lesson
- Predictive Planning
- Reflect and Respond
- 5. Observation: The Eyes Have It
- Another Pair of Eyes
- Before the Observation
- The Observation: Seeing with New Eyes
- Reflect and Respond
- 6. Debrief: Deep Reflection and Lesson ReVisioning
- A Disposition for Reflection
- Reflection Starts with Description
- Re Visioning through Appraising and Appreciating
- Re Visioning Teaching and Learning
- Reflect and Respond
- PART III: REFINING THE FOCUS
- 7. Building Understanding
- What is Understanding?
- Supporting Student Understanding
- Developing Teacher Understanding
- Reflect and Respond
- 8. Flexibility
- Teaching Requires Cognitive Flexibility
- Flexibility vs. the Perfect Lesson Plan
- Flexibility as a Focus for Lesson Study
- Increased Flexibility
- Reflect and Respond
- 9. Supporting Responsiveness
- Cultural Responsiveness
- Contextual Responsiveness
- Responsiveness to Individual Lives and Interests
- Responsiveness to Students' Learning Needs
- Responsiveness to Teachers' Needs
- Understanding, Flexibility, and Responsiveness
- Reflect and Respond
- Conclusion: Ongoing Cycles of Lesson Study
- Variations and Iterations
- Dispositions
- ReVisioning Through Lesson Study
- Reflect and Respond
- Appendix A: Agenda for Introducing Lesson Study
- Appendix B: Planning Our Lesson
- Appendix C: Observation Day Agenda
- Appendix D: Videos for Observation Practice
- Appendix E: Before and After Lesson Study Plans
- Appendix F: Student Interest Inventory
- References
- Index
- About the Author
