Lesson Study Symposium : A Da Qiao Primary School 30th Anniversary Event

Lesson Study in Keys Grade School, Manila
Da Qiao Primary School
Lesson Study Symposium
Deepening Our Practice
Keynote Lecture
DrYeap Ban Har
Marshall Cavendish Institute Singapore
banhar.yeap@pathlight.org.sg
www.singaporelessonstudy.blogspot
www.banhar.blogspot.com
Lesson Study in Sembawang Secondary School

Teacher Quality as a Critical Factor in Student Learning

Lesson Study in BinaBangsa School, Jakarta
…nothing matters more than finding people with the potential to be great teachers.
MalcomGladwell 2009
What The Dog Saw

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

Source: How the World's Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top
The McKinsey Report
Getting the right people to become teachers and to develop them into effective teachers.

Teacher Quality
Teacher Selection

Source: BBC News 23 Nov 2004
“The country has made a conscious effort to have highly-qualified teachers throughout the system.”
Minister of Education (Finland) 2004

Teacher Quality
Teacher Selection

Source: Straits Times 23 Nov 2010
“The first is improving teaching,
developing teachers professionally ….”
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.
Photo: Northlight School
Minister of Education (Singapore) 2009

Photo: Fuchun Primary School
We need to build capacity for teachers themselves to take the lead in professional upgrading.
Minister of Education Singapore 2009

Identify Research Theme
Plan Lesson
Research Lesson
Lesson Plan Revision
Post-Lesson Discussion

Deepening
1
Our Practice
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.

Deepening
1
Our Practice
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.

Ateneo Grade School, Manila
Deepening
2
Our Practice
Lesson Planning Meetings
Lesson Planning meetings are ‘study’ sessions.
Look at how the textbooks and other curriculum materials engage students, if student engagement is the professional learning goal.
Learn from each other.
Learn by reflecting on our own previous practice.

Deepening
2
Our Practice
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).
One way to deepen our practice is to adopt a ‘study’ approach during lesson study.

Deepening
3
Our Practice
Post-Lesson Discussion & Lesson Refinement Meetings
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?

Deepening
3
Our Practice
2. Lesson Refinement focuses on what-ifs
What if the lesson is taught again to similar students under similar conditions?
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.
DaQiao Primary School

Deepening
3
Our Practice
Suggested Protocols
Chairperson reminds the group of the professional learning goals.
Research teacher tells the group changes made during lesson.
Group members shares one observation each related to professional learning goal.
Knowledgeable Other synthesizes the discussion.
One way to deepen our practice is to learn to synthesize discussions into form of useable knowledge.

Deepening
4
Our Practice
What’s Next …?
After lesson study
Professional learning continues at the personal level which results in accepting or rejecting tentative knowledge that emerged from lesson study.
At the school level
relevant data is used for efficacy study
long-term perspective in data collection
use categories rather than taking averages
One way to deepen our practice is to be precise in measuring student outcomes.

Lesson Study in Keys Grade School, Manila
Da Qiao Primary School
Lesson Study Symposium
Deepening Our Practice
Thank You
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