How is Lesson Study like a pizza

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How is Lesson Study like a pizza?
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Its all about the process

• Jennifer Palmer Reading Specialist
• Amanda Suro Kindergarten Teacher
• Annie Soleau First Grade Teacher

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Introduction of Lesson Study

• Lesson study is a Japanese concept. It is their
  major form of professional development.
• This process helps to give structure to and
  allows teachers to learn about their own
  teaching, ultimately operating as a learning
  community.

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Introduction of Lesson Study

• It is the process of a group of teachers planning
  a research lesson around a standard or topic, one
  teacher volunteering to teach the lesson, the
  rest of the team of teachers observing student
  response to the lesson, re-teaming after the
  lesson to discuss their observations, revising
  the lesson, and then repeating the process with
  another teacher (Lewis, 2000 Murata Takahaski,
  2002 Lewis, Perry, Murata, 2003 Yoshida,
  1999).

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Introduction of Lesson Study

• Lesson study can focus on any content area. In
  Japan, all teachers focus on all content areas
  for lesson study.
• In America, much of the time spent with JLS has
  been in the areas of math and science.
• We decided to focus on reading.

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Introduction of Lesson Study

• The important thing to remember about JLS, is it
  is NOT product driven. The purpose is NOT to
  develop flawless lessons.
• The purpose is to focus on the process of
  planning and implementing lessons to measure how
  our actions as teachers have an impact on student
  learning.

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Lesson Study Cycle
Plan
Debrief
Teach/Observe
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Lesson Study Cycle

• Planning
• Goal Selection (Unit and Lesson)
• Background Information
• Lesson Plan Format
• Instructional Sequence
• Expected Student Responses
• Teacher Responses
• Evaluation

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Lesson Plan Format
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Lesson Study Cycle

• Observing
• Participants
• Lead Teacher
• Lesson Study Team
• Outside Observers
• Jobs of observers
• Data collection on student learning
• /?/
• Each observer is responsible for different
  aspects of data collection

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Lesson Study Cycle

• Debriefing
• Most powerful component!
• Attendance
• Lead Teacher
• Lesson Study Team
• Outside Observers
• Process Observer
• Opportunity for reflection on student learning
  and analysis of lesson taught

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Lesson Study Cycle

• Repeat
• Process repeated with a different lead teacher
• Planning
• Adaptations needed
• Rationale for changes made
• Teaching/Observing
• Additions and changes addressed in lesson plan
• Debriefing
• Discuss teacher and student learning through
  process
• Ah Has!

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The Debriefing Process
Review Purpose and Assign Roles
Discussion by Lead Teacher
Comments given by Lesson Study Team
Comments given by Outside Observers
Comments given by Process Observers
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Review purpose and assign rolesrolling out the
dough

• Assigning Roles
• Facilitator outlines the agenda
• Reviews goals of the planning

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Lead Teacherputting on the sauce base

• Teacher who taught discusses lesson
• Reflects on student learning
• Analysis of teaching that affected student
  learning

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Lesson Study Teamsprinkling on the cheese

• Raise questions and issues that were discussed
  during planning
• Comment on specific aspects of the lesson
• Positive comments given first
• Lesson Study team presents data collected
• Lead teacher takes time
• to reflect before
• responding to observers
• comments

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Outside Observersadding the toppings

• Outside observers give feedback
• Positive comments given first
• Feedback related to the goals of the lesson
• Critical feedback is backed up by concrete
  evidence

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Process Observersfinal seasonings

• Reviews protocol and gives feedback on the
  process
• Pose questions that assist participants in
  reflection of the process
• Summary of learning
• Process ah has
• Pedagogy ah has

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Importance of the Process

• Video
• What steps do you see the research team taking?
• What stance does the process observer take?
• What stance do the classroom teachers take?

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Getting Started

• Benefits
• Meaningful professional dialogue
• Increased teacher learning
• Tighter focus and strong correlation between
  objective and assessment
• Book selection
• Every Pupil Response
• Knowing your class
• Process Ah Has
• Clarifying data with interviews
• Lesson plan format /?/
• Responsibilities of observers

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Getting Started

• Challenges
• Release time
• Technology
• Time consuming
• Learning as we go

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How could School Leaders use lesson study to
improve classroom instruction?

• Sharing the lesson study model with SIT teams or
  interested teachers
• Modeling continuous self-improvement as a
  participant
• Supporting learning as a process observer
• Covering classes so others can participate

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How could School Leaders use lesson study to
improve classroom instruction?

• There are times where our job requires us to be
  the expert. Lesson study is NOT one of those
  times.
• As a participant, you will grow in two ways in
  your knowledge of pedagogy and in how you work
  with your colleagues.

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Questions/Answers

• Contact Information
• Jennifer.Palmer_at_hcps.org
• Annie.Moran_at_hcps.org
• Amanda.Suro_at_hcps.org
• Mills College lesson study site
• http//www.lessonresearch.net/res.html

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SoHow is Lesson Study like a pizza?