lesson study symposium : a da qiao primary school 30th anniversary event

Da Qiao Primary SchoolLesson Study Symposium

Deepening Our Practice

Keynote Lecture

Dr Yeap Ban HarMarshall Cavendish Institute

Singaporebanhar.yeap@pathlight.org.sg

www.singaporelessonstudy.blogspotwww.banhar.blogspot.com

Lesson Study in Keys Grade School, Manila

Lesson Study in Sembawang Secondary School

Teacher Quality as a Critical Factor in Student Learning

…nothing matters more than finding people with the potential to be

great teachers.

Malcom Gladwell 2009What The Dog Saw

Lesson Study in Bina Bangsa School, Jakarta

Teacher Quality• Teacher Selection • Teacher Pre-service Teacher Education• Teacher In-service Professional Development

Getting the right people to become teachers and to

develop them into effective teachers.

Source: How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top The McKinsey Report

Teacher Quality• Teacher Selection • Teacher Pre-service Teacher Education• Teacher In-service Professional Development

“The country has made a conscious effort to have

highly-qualified teachers throughout the system.”

Source: BBC News 23 Nov 2004

Minister of Education (Finland) 2004

Teacher Quality• Teacher Selection • Teacher Pre-service Teacher Education• Teacher In-service Professional Development

“The first is improving teaching,

developing teachers professionally ….”

Source: Straits Times 23 Nov 2010

Secretary of State for Education (Britain) 2010

Teacher Professional Development Coherent Collaborative Authentic

To create a professional learning community, focus on learning

rather than teaching, work collaboratively, and hold yourself

accountable for results.Richard DuFour

Lesson Study in Fuchun Primary School, Northlight School and Mayflower Primary School

A good education system depends on high quality teachers who

constantly seek to improve their practice, supported by school leaders and administrators, and resources from departments and agencies within MOE.

Minister of Education (Singapore) 2009

Photo: Northlight School

We need to build capacity for

teachers themselves to take the lead in professional upgrading.

Minister of Education Singapore 2009

Photo: Fuchun Primary School

Identify Research Theme

Plan Lesson

Research Lesson

Post-Lesson Discussion

Lesson Plan Revision

DeepeningOur Practice 1

Lesson Study Teams must have a professional learning goal which is linked to school’s professional learning goal. This is also called the research theme.

Lesson Study in Ateneo Grade School, Manila

The Grade 5 Science Lesson Study team set as their professional learning goal how to enhance students’ higher-order thinking ability.

DeepeningOur Practice 1

The professional learning goal is based on ideal and actual student characteristics linked to school’s vision and subject’s focus.

The professional learning goal is broad but not vague.

One way to deepen our practice is to use professional learning goal to have a coherent and outcome-oriented professional learning.

Public Research Lesson at Middle School Attached to Tsukuba University, Tokyo

Schools in Japan typically use the same research theme for several

years.

DeepeningOur Practice 2

Lesson Planning Meetings

Lesson Planning meetings are ‘study’ sessions.

1. Look at how the textbooks and other curriculum materials engage students, if student engagement is the professional learning goal.

2. Learn from each other.3. Learn by reflecting on our own previous practice.

Ateneo Grade School, Manila

DeepeningOur Practice 2

One way to deepen our practice is to adopt a ‘study’ approach during lesson study.

Ateneo Grade School, Manila

How to enhance thinking skills when students are listing down differences between when they were infants and now (11-year olds).

DeepeningOur Practice 3

Post-Lesson Discussion & Lesson Refinement Meetings

1. Post-Lesson Discussion focuses on data from Research Lesson

Pathlight School

Janice saved some money on Monday. She saved $3 more on Tuesday than on Monday. Subsequently, she saved $3 more each day then the day before. By Thursday, she had saved $100. How much money did she saved on Thursday?

DeepeningOur Practice 3

Post-Lesson Discussion & Lesson Refinement Meetings

2. Lesson Refinement focuses on what-ifsa. What if the lesson is taught again to similar

students under similar conditions?b. What if the lesson is taught under other

conditions?

One way to deepen our practice is to have a more structured meetings.

What if virtual manipulative is used instead of base ten

materials? What if this is an LSM class? What if this is an

enrichment lesson? Lesson refinement meetings is filled with

what-if type discussions.Da Qiao Primary School

DeepeningOur Practice 3

Post-Lesson Discussion & Lesson Refinement Meetings

Suggested Protocols

1. Chairperson reminds the group of the professional learning goals.

2. Research teacher tells the group changes made during lesson.

3. Group members shares one observation each related to professional learning goal.

4. Knowledgeable Other synthesizes the discussion.

One way to deepen our practice is to learn to synthesize discussions into form of useable knowledge.

DeepeningOur Practice 4

What’s Next …?

After lesson study

1. Professional learning continues at the personal level which results in accepting or rejecting tentative knowledge that emerged from lesson study.

2. At the school levela. relevant data is used for efficacy studyb. long-term perspective in data collectionc. use categories rather than taking averages

One way to deepen our practice is to be precise in measuring student outcomes.

Da Qiao Primary SchoolLesson Study Symposium

Deepening Our Practice

Thank You

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Lesson Study in Keys Grade School, Manila

Lesson Study in Sembawang Secondary School