© Developmental Studies Center Welcome to Lesson Study Introduce yourself to others at your table. Get ready to embark on an exciting professional journey

© Developmental Studies Center

Welcome to Lesson StudyIntroduce yourself to others at your table.

Get ready to embark on an exciting professional journey with your colleagues!


The DSC Mission

To help children develop

to their full potential academically,

ethically, socially,

and emotionally


Workshop Agenda Team Builder

Lesson Study Overview

Reflection

Facilitator’s Kit Review

Lesson Study Protocol Experience

Orange County Public School Model

Implementation Planning


Group Line UpThink about where you were born.

Form a line in order of birthplace beginning with the person born closest to our current location.

End the line with the person born furthest from our current location.


Line Up QuestionsWhat brings you here today? – Why are you interested in Lesson Study?

Think of a powerful professional development experience that impacted your work. – What about the staff development made it so powerful and successful?


Debrief TeambuilderWhat did you notice about the teambuilder?

Why are teambuilders such as this important for a professional learning community?

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Research on Teacher Development: Professional development should be intensive,

ongoing, and connected to practice.

Professional development should focus on student learning and address the teaching of specific curriculum content.

Professional development should align with school improvement priorities and goals.

Professional development should build strong working relationships.

Bullets Taken from the NSDC publication: Professional Learning in The Learning Profession: A Status Report on Teacher Development in the United States and

Abroad (Hammond, Chung Wei, Andree, Richardson, Orphanos 2009)


Workshop Goals• Become familiar with the purposes of Lesson

Study

• Learn about the Lesson Study Cycle

• Understand DSC’s approach to implementing Lesson Study

• Experience components of the Lesson Study Facilitator’s Kit

• Become familiar with the Lesson Study Facilitator’s Kit

• Prepare to implement Lesson Study


What is Lesson Study?

Lesson study is really as much of a culture as it is a professional

development practice.

Tad Watanabe, Kennesaw State University


Where are you with lesson study?

1. Just heard of the innovation

2. Beginning to gather information

3. Know enough to try it out

4. Fully implemented and working on making it better

5. Ready to work on helping others so that it becomes culturally embedded in our practice




Prepare to watch lesson study video:

As you watch, pay attention to information that intrigues you and information that you wonder about.

What supports do you think were in place for the research team in the video?


Video Discussion Questions

What did you see that intrigues you?

What did you see that you wonder about?

What supports would have to be in place for Lesson Study to be successful?

What thoughts do you have about undertaking Lesson Study in your district?


Why do Lesson Study?

Lesson Study helps us:

Design better lessons that get students engaged in thinking

Deepen our content knowledge

Examine the cause and effect relationship between teaching and learning

Discern more and less effective teaching strategies

Become more astute observers of students

Build supportive collegial relationships and enrich our professional lives


Getting started•Create the team•Build community and set group norms•Agree on outcomes

1. Lesson Planning•Plan the lesson together•Select the teacher•Identify the classroom

3. Data Analysis•Reflect on student data.•Reflect on group learning and discuss implications.•Agree on next steps.

2. The Research Lesson•Teach the research lesson.•Observe the lesson.•Collect student data.


Teacher Researchers Ask Themselves

When things go well, we ask ourselves:

What in my teaching made that happen?

When things don’t go well, we ask ourselves the same question.


Think about it…• How is lesson study similar to or different from

other professional development experiences you have had?

• How does Lesson Study fit with other state initiatives such as Florida’s Continuous Improvement Model (FCIM), Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), Problem-Solving and Response to Intervention (PS/RtI)?


Set Team Norms for Lesson Study

In what ways might learning together in lesson study require taking risks?



Imagine planning a lesson together as a team. There are several different ideas about how to approach a part of the lesson. How would you want to interact as a team during this discussion?



Imagine that you are the one teaching the research lesson for your colleagues to observe. The lesson, for whatever reason, does not go well. What would help you feel supported by your team in that situation?



Imagine that you have an idea that differs from what seems to be the majority opinion. Why is it important that you speak up? What would help you voice your idea? How would you want your idea to be received?



What kinds of things will you do to contribute to a feeling of safety and community in this team?


Team Norms for Lesson Study

We will…


Debrief Team Norms for Lesson Study

• What was the experience like for you?

• What questions does the process of creating these norms raise for you?


Lesson Study Support Kit

A two-year course of learning, led by a facilitator,

designed to prepare teams of teachers to implement ongoing lesson study as a regular part of their professional and school lives.

The kit provides materials for the facilitator and and for each of the teachers, (teacher researchers) participating in lesson study.

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Goals and Design of the Lesson Study Support Kit

• Learn the process and purposes of Lesson Study

• Build understanding of how students become engaged, learn, and develop

• Cultivate skills and methods for collecting analyzing, and applying student data

• Cultivate discernment about more and less effective instructional strategies

• Spread lesson study participation in the school by sharing experiences

• Build a professional learning community that puts student learning at the center

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Lesson Study Support Kit for Facilitators

QuickStart Guide for facilitators

Facilitator's Kit, Grades K–12 Facilitator's Manual, Grades K–12

Lesson Study Overview DVD

The DSC Way DVD

Order form for teacher’s kits

Five data collection instrument pads

Facilitator’s Kit Reproducible Materials CD-ROM

The Lesson Planning Handbook

Teachers’ Kits, Grades K–2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

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Jigsaw Facilitator’s Manual

(1) Number off 1-4 with your table group.

(2) Review the following sections in your Facilitator’s Manual. Mark places you want to discuss and share with your table group.

ALL: Pages 1-19

ONES: Pages 21 – 82 (Year One Meeting Agendas and Protocols)

TWOS: Pages 83 – 117 (Year Two Meeting Agendas and Protocols)

THREES: Pages 120 – 210 ((Facilitation Techniques and Professional Resources)

FOURS: Pages 211 - END (Data Collection & Analysis, Lesson Study Master Protocol, Black Line Masters)

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Jigsaw Facilitator’s Manual, continued Meet with the other like number at your table to discuss your section and decide what will be important to highlight for others.

Share your section with others in your table group and discuss the following question.

How might the design and contents of the kit support your teachers in learning and implementing Lesson Study?

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Lesson Study Facilitator Training, Day 2

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Teambuilder: Inside-Outside Circle

Number Off 1, 2, 3, 4

Ones and Twos will stay in this room

Threes and Fours will go across the hall

Form two circles, one inside the other.

The inside circle should face out and the outside circle should face in so that everyone is facing someone in the other circle.


Inside-Outside Circle Questions

Think about what you have learned about lesson study.

What do you expect some of the challenges are to implementing lesson study effectively? For teachers? For administrators? For facilitators?


Rotate the outside circle…

After discussing some of the challenges you expect to face, what might be some solutions to these challenges?


Debrief Teambuilder

What did you discuss during this team builder?

How might you use this activity with your staff/school/team?


Research Lessons in the kit…

Provide teachers with thoughtfully designed and well crafted lessons which scaffold understandings of effective instruction.

Allow participants to focus on learning data collection techniques and analyzing data.

Later teachers will integrate what they have learned from the data into planning teacher-selected lessons.

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Qualities of Good Lessons

What would you add to the following list?

Students are active

Purpose is clear

Connects to prior learning

Work with your table group to create your own Qualities of Good Lessons list.

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Review Lessons in the Kit

Work with a partner…

1. Select one of the Teacher’s Kits (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)

2. Review the contents in the Lesson Study Support Kit Research Lessons book

3. Choose one content area to read more carefully (Reading Comprehension, Writing, and Mathematics)

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Review Lessons in the Kit

Work with a partner…

1. Read through the lessons you selected with the Qualities of Good Lessons in mind.

2. Use sticky notes to mark places where there is evidence of good instruction.

3. Share what you find with your others at your table.

What might you say to new Research Teams about the value of using the lessons in the kit in their early Lesson Study cycles?

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Lesson Study Protocol Practice

Discussion Facilitation Techniques

1.Read through the Discussion Facilitation Techniques (p. 120) and mark those you would like to try

2.Talk with a partner

Which of the facilitation techniques will you try? Why might they be important when working with Research Teams?


Lesson Study Cycle 1

Before starting Cycle 1, the Facilitator…

• Introduced Lesson Study to the staff using the Staff Meeting Agenda on pages 21 – 26 of your Facilitator’s Manual

• Identified the Teacher Research Teams

• Facilitated the Preparing for Lesson Study Team Meeting Agenda found on pages 27 - 31


Lesson Study Cycle 1, Phase 1: Practice Activity

Skim and Scan the Staff Meeting and Team Meeting Agendas (pages 21 – 31 of your Facilitator’s Manual)

How will these meetings be helpful for Lesson Study implementation?

What else might you do to help Research Teams be successful?



1. Locate and tab Lesson Study Protocol, Cycle 1 on pages 32 – 42.

2. Review pages 32, 33, and 34.

3. Revisit your norms and make any revisions agreed upon by the team.

4. Agree upon a Research Lesson from one of the Teacher’s Kits to work with



Working as a Research Team

1. Number off at your table 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

2. Carefully read your assigned section as follows:

1. Step 2, page 34

2. Step 3, page 35

3. Step 4, page 36

4. Step 5, pages 36-37

5. Step 6, 7, 8, pages 37-38



1. Use the kit resources (articles, lesson, data collection tools) and plan to try out parts of the protocol.

2. Share your section with your teammates.

3. Try some of the facilitation techniques to support the work of the group.


Lesson Study Cycle 1: Phases 2 & 3

1. Read through the steps on pages 38 – 42 to learn more about the Observation and Data Collection and Data Analysis and Debrief phases.

2. Review the Behavior Scan 1 section in the Data Collection and Analysis tools on pages 212 – 216.

How might using these tools and processes support teachers in their data collection and analysis?


What issues came up for you during this lesson study protocol review?

What is one thing you want to continue to think about?

Reflection Question


Q Who might you recommend attend the Regional Training?

Q How will you introduce Lesson Study to others in your district?

Q How many schools or Research Teams do you anticipate working with this year?

Q Will you have lab sites? How will you identify these?

Q Who might your facilitators be?

Q What supports will you need?

Next Steps Considerations:


For myself…

For students…

For teachers…

For my school or district…

Hopes and Intentions for Lesson Study


Documents

© Developmental Studies Center Welcome to Lesson Study Introduce yourself to others at your table. Get ready to embark on an exciting professional journey