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Holloway, Jessica; Doxsee, Rebecca – Educational Leadership, 2021
Educators have many "meetings of the minds": Grade-level planning sessions, PLCs, coaching meetings--which together should allow teachers ample opportunities to create high-quality, rigorous lesson plans that deepen student learning. But do these meetings actually work? Frequent planning sessions often become a time for teachers to…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Planning, Communities of Practice, Meetings
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Rachel Jung-Hoo Kim – Music Educators Journal, 2023
Technology can help expand communities of practice in music education and promote a democratic schooling process vital to culturally sustaining pedagogy. Through careful and effective implementation, technology helps connect students to relevant musical communities and supports educators in achieving student-centered thinking and practices. The…
Descriptors: Music Education, Communities of Practice, Technology Uses in Education, Culturally Relevant Education
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Chen, Licui – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have been recognized as a promising infrastructure for teacher professional development and student achievement. There has been increasing research interest in PLCs outside mainstream Western contexts. Based on literature and documentary analysis, this paper outlines the historical development of PLCs in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Academic Achievement, Faculty Development, Lesson Plans
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Lovett, Marsha; Hershock, Chad – To Improve the Academy, 2020
A prominent goal of colleges and universities today is to enact data-driven teaching and learning. Faculty clearly play a key role, and yet they tend to have limited time, a lack of training in assessment or education research, and few incentives for engaging in this work. We describe a framework designed to address the practical and cultural…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Data Analysis, Systems Approach, Lesson Plans
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Hourigan, Mairéad; Leavy, Aisling M. – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2020
As part of Lesson Study research within an initial teacher education programme two mathematics teacher educators worked alongside a group of five pre-service elementary teachers to create a motivating and meaningful problem-based lesson. The lesson promoted Year 5 students' understandings of the relationship between area and perimeter. The results…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Communities of Practice, Elementary School Teachers
Collet, Vicki S. – Teachers College Press, 2019
Discover how Lesson Study benefits both students and teachers. Unlike scripted curricula that strip teachers of professional decisionmaking, Lesson Study values teachers by expecting them to be agents of improvement in their own classrooms. This resource empowers readers to oppose reform efforts that minimize teacher agency by offering an…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Student Centered Learning, Instructional Development, Instructional Improvement
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Mewald, Claudia; Mürwald-Scheifinger, Elisabeth – European Journal of Education, 2019
This article describes how lesson study creates a process of teacher learning whilst developing student learning through collaborative planning, guided observation and reflection. It presents a framework for conducting lesson study in a teacher development programme in Lower Austria. The role of knowledgeable others in the development of ownership…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Faculty Development
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Joubert, Jody; Callaghan, Ronel; Engelbrecht, Johann – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Lesson study (LS) is a form of professional development, with a strong foundation in mathematics education, based on teachers collaborating to design lessons. This collaboration, however, can be challenging for isolated teachers. In 2017, a course was presented at the university to train 52 teachers from all over South Africa as well as Botswana…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
Goodwin, Bryan – Educational Leadership, 2016
In this article, the author reflects on the support that novice teachers may need when preparing lesson plans. Showing that support makes a difference, three groups of teachers (one with access to lessons plans along with assistance from an online learning community; one with model plans but just online access; and one writing their own lesson…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Lesson Plans, Educational Benefits, Social Support Groups
Ndihokubwayo, Kizito; Habiyaremye, Hashituky Telesphore – Online Submission, 2019
The literature review showed the relationship with the lesson study with other practices such as CPD [continuous professional development], SBI [school-based in-service teacher training] through Peer learning altogether contributing to the implementation of Rwandan CBC [competence-based curriculum]. Lesson study practices showed tremendous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Teacher Competencies
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Regan, Kelley S.; Evmenova, Anya S.; Kurz, Leigh Ann; Hughes, Melissa D.; Sacco, Donna; Ahn, Soo Y.; MacVittie, Nichole; Good, Kevin; Boykin, Andrea; Schwartzer, Jessica; Chirinos, David S. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2016
Scripted lesson plans and/or professional development alone may not be sufficient to encourage teachers to reflect on the quality of their teaching and improve their teaching. One learning tool that teachers may use to improve their teaching is Lesson Study (LS). LS is a collaborative process involving educators, based on concepts of iteration and…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Learning Disabilities, Lesson Plans
Cerwin, Karen; DiRanna, Kathy; Grace, Jill; LaFontaine, Phil; Ritchie, Sue; Sherif, Jody; Topps, Jo; Tupper, David; Vargas, Claudio; Woods, Barbara; Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Iveland, Ashley – WestEd, 2018
NGSS Early Implementers is a four-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Designed for professional developers and administrators, this report describes 10 tools and processes that are…
Descriptors: State Standards, School Districts, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lewis, Catherine – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
This article presents a theoretical model of lesson study's impact on instruction, through intervening impact on teachers' knowledge, beliefs and dispositions, teachers' learning community, and curriculum. It also describes four different types of lesson study in Japan, pointing out their synergies in producing a system where local teachers…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Beliefs, Teacher Characteristics
Friziellie, Heather; Schmidt, Julie A.; Spiller, Jeanne – Solution Tree, 2016
As states adopt more rigorous academic standards, schools must define how special education fits into standards-aligned curricula, instruction, and assessment. Utilizing PLC practices, general and special educators must develop collaborative partnerships in order to close the achievement gap and maximize learning for all. The authors encourage…
Descriptors: Regular and Special Education Relationship, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice
Lewis, Elizabeth; Baker, Dale; Watts, Nievita Bueno; Lang, Michael – Science Educator, 2014
In this article we describe current educational research underlying a comprehensive model for building a scientific classroom discourse community. We offer a professional development activity for a school-based professional learning community, providing specific science instructional strategies within this interactive teaching model. This design…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
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