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| Title | Write Great Curriculum: Japanese Lesson Planning |
| Body | Team teaching, teaching to strengths, having peers provide feedback, and observing others to learn new ideas and strategies are ways in which globally focused schools best serve students. When teachers plan together, even without team teaching, their combined knowledge and experience is always more valuable than what one teacher alone might develop. One example of such collaboration is Japanese Lesson Study, a process developed more than one hundred years ago. Typically involving teams of four to six teachers, Japanese lesson study is a collaborative professional development tool invented in Japan in the Meiji period. Teachers work as a group (usually at a specific grade level) to plan, observe, examine, and refine classroom lessons. This ongoing process of lesson study, which could last for years, begins with the group of teachers setting a goal for themselves. They then create curriculum that aims to meet this goal. Teachers in Japan are expected to participate in this process and almost every teacher is involved in at least one lesson study group. Read the complete article at http://tinyurl.com/37uyabm and learn a process for lesson study you can use in your own school. |
| Source | Asia Society |
| Inputdate | 2010-07-03 06:18:13 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2010-07-03 06:18:13 |
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| Publishdate | 2010-07-05 00:00:00 |
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