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Meghan Cureton

Lesson Study: When Teachers Team Up to Improve Teaching | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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InstructionalRounds lesson study

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    Lesson study / Instructional Rounds - HMW make it easier for teachers to visit each other's classes and approach teaching and learning in this way?
Meghan Cureton

'Lesson Study' Technique: What Teachers Can Learn From One Another | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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School Change InstructionalRounds

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  • Next, the teachers do some research on why students struggle with adding fractions. They read the latest education literature and look at lessons other teachers have tried. Typically they have an “outside adviser.” This person is usually an expert or researcher who does not work at the school but who’s invited to advise the group and help them with things like identifying articles and studies to read.
  • he observers don’t focus on the teacher; they focus on the students
  • But the Japanese think about improving teaching.
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  • we need to shift from thinking about how to improve teachers to thinking about how to improve teaching.
  • it’s a long process, kind of the opposite of the one-day workshop
  • Lesson study helps you “get into new habits as a thinker, and as an instructor,”
  • “We are so addicted to quick fixes,” says Hiebert. “If it doesn’t fix things in two years, it’s not worth it.”
Meghan Cureton

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Learning learningwalks InstructionalRounds collaboration

shared by Meghan Cureton on 04 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • when teachers have regular, structured opportunities to learn together, good ideas are more likely to travel from one classroom to the next.
  • Collaboration takes time and planning. If classroom observation becomes part of a school’s strategy, administrators have to make time during the regular school day for shared professional learning among the staff. School leaders should also have to have clear objectives for the program of observation, and protocols to keep discussion on track and to ensure that the time isn’t wasted.
  • A spirit of continuous learning permeates the school, which encourages all teachers
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  • “Sometimes the best things going on are happening in your own building, and you might miss them because you’re doing your own thing,”
  • teachers meet regularly outside of class time to examine their students’ coursework as a team.
  • “The reason we look at student work is to help teachers become better teachers,”
  • “are better able to guide and facilitate a deeper level of student learning.”
  • community of learners who use planned, peer-to-peer feedback to help raise student outcomes throughout the school.
  • Each three-hour teacher lab focuses on a specific instructional topic that teachers choose to explore together, such as student engagement strategies.
  • To encourage more teacher collaboration in your school, you’ll want to consider: Time: Where will you find time within the regular school day for teachers to step outside their own classrooms and learn together? Structure: How might a protocol or specific observation prompt help to focus the learning experience? Who will play a lead role in facilitating the teacher experience and encouraging reflection? How will you capture takeaways? The National School Reform Faculty publishes a number of protocols for professional learning, such as this one for looking at student work. Follow-up: How are teachers applying what they learn together? How do students benefit as a result of teacher collaboration?
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