Lesson Study 2 Day Orlando November 2010 Posted

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Developmental Studies Center

Welcome to Lesson Study

Introduce yourself to others at your table.

Get ready to embark on an exciting

professional journey with your colleagues!


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The DSC Mission

To help children

develop

to their full potentialacademically,

ethically,

socially,and emotionally


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Workshop Agenda Team Builder

Lesson Study Overview

Reflection Facilitators Kit Review

Lesson Study Protocol Experience

Orange County Public School Model

Implementation Planning


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Group Line Up

Think about where you were born.

Form a line in order of birthplace beginning

with the person born closest to our currentlocation.

End the line with the person born furthest

from our current location.


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Line Up Questions

What 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 staffdevelopment made it so powerful and

successful?


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Debrief Teambuilder

What 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 studentlearning and address the teaching of specific

curriculum content.

Professional development should align with schoolimprovement priorities and goals.

Professional development should build strongworking relationships.

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

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


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Workshop Goals

Become familiar with the purposes of LessonStudy

Learn about the Lesson Study Cycle

Understand DSCs approach to implementingLesson Study

Experience components of the Lesson StudyFacilitators Kit

Become familiar with the Lesson StudyFacilitators Kit

Prepare to implement Lesson Study


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What is Lesson Study?

Lesson study is really as much of a

culture as it is a professionaldevelopment practice.

Tad Watanabe, Kennesaw State University


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Where are you with lesson study?

1. Just heard of the innovation

2. Beginning to gather information

3. Know enough to try it out4. Fully implemented and working on

making it better

5. Ready to work on helping others sothat it becomes culturally embedded in

our practice


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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?


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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 aboutundertaking Lesson Study in your

district?


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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


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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.


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Teacher Researchers Ask Themselves

When things go well, we ask ourselves:

What in my teaching made that happen?

When things dont go well, we askourselves the same question.


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Think about it

How is lesson study similar to or different fromother professional development experiencesyou have had?

How does Lesson Study fit with other stateinitiatives such as Floridas ContinuousImprovement Model (FCIM), Professional

Learning Communities (PLCs), Problem-Solving and Response to Intervention(PS/RtI)?


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Set Team Norms for Lesson Study

In what ways might learning together inlesson study require taking risks?


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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 teamduring this discussion?


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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?


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Imagine that you have an idea that differsfrom 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?


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What kinds of things will you do to contribute

to a feeling of safety and community in thisteam?


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Team Norms for Lesson Study

We will


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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?


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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 aregular part of their professional and

school lives.

The kit provides materials for the facilitator andand 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 sharingexperiences

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 K12

Facilitator's Manual, Grades K12

Lesson Study OverviewDVD

The DSC WayDVD

Order form for teachers kits

Five data collection instrument pads

Facilitators Kit Reproducible Materials CD-ROM

The Lesson Planning Handbook

Teachers Kits, Grades K2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

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Jigsaw Facilitators Manual

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

(2) Review the following sections in your Facilitators

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 Facilitators 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 tablegroup 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

Nonprofit. Research Based. Mission Driven. Since 1980.


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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 thateveryone is facing someone in the other

circle.


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Inside-Outside Circle Questions

Think about what you have learned aboutlesson study.

What do you expect some of the

challenges are to implementing lesson

study effectively? For teachers? Foradministrators? For facilitators?


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Rotate the outside circle

After discussing some of the challenges

you expect to face, what might be some

solutions to these challenges?


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Debrief Teambuilder

What did you discuss during this team

builder?

How might you use this activity with your

staff/school/team?


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Research Lessons in the kit

Provide teachers with thoughtfullydesigned 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 theyhave 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 partner1. Select one of the Teachers Kits (K-2, 3-5,

6-8, 9-12)

2. Review the contents in the Lesson StudySupport 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 partner1. 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 FacilitationTechniques (p. 120) and mark those you would

like to try2. Talk with a partner

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


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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 Facilitators Manual

Identified the Teacher Research Teams

Facilitated the Preparing for Lesson StudyTeam Meeting Agenda found on pages 27 -

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Lesson Study Cycle 1, Phase 1: Practice Activity

Skim and Scan the Staff Meeting andTeam Meeting Agendas (pages 21 31of your Facilitators Manual)

How will these meetings be helpful forLesson Study implementation?

What else might you do to helpResearch Teams be successful?


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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 Teachers Kits to work with


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Working as a Research Team1. Number off at your table 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

2. Carefully read your assigned section as follows:

1. Step 2, page 342. Step 3, page 35

3. Step 4, page 36

4. Step 5, pages 36-37

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


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

2. Share your section with yourteammates.

3. Try some of the facilitation

techniques to support the work of thegroup.


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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?


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What issues came up for you during thislesson study protocol review?

What is one thing you want to continue to

think about?

Reflection Question


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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 anticipateworking 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:


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For myself

For students

For teachers

For my school or district

Hopes and Intentions for Lesson Study


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Documents

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