Return-Path: Received: from listserv.tc.columbia.edu (listserv.tc.columbia.edu [128.59.202.50]) by menyapa.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA11656 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:45:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:43:40 -0700 From: Rebecca Perry Organization: Mills College X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Lesson Study Listserv" Subject: Do you have a lesson study debriefing session on tape? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Unsubscribe: Reply-To: Rebecca Perry Dear Lesson Study Practitioners: The U.S.-Japan Elementary Science Project focuses on lesson study as one strategy for spreading teaching for understanding in science and math. The study draws on lesson study research in both Japan and the U.S., with the intention of illustrating how lesson study is conducted in both countries. We have recently received several requests for information about how to conduct lesson study debriefings from U.S. practitioners who are learning lesson study. In order to provide assistance in this crucial part of lesson study and to help spread lesson study more broadly, we have begun to transcribe and analyze debriefing sessions from both Japan and the U.S. to understand more specifically how debriefing sessions are conducted in both countries. Our analysis is conducted by reviewing transcripts of debriefing sessions for structure and content. Preliminary analysis suggests that U.S. and Japanese debriefing sessions may differ in how teachers draw on session moderators, and how they discuss assumptions about student learning and the use of teaching materials and student manipulatives. We have collected many U.S. examples of debriefing sessions, but are seeking more to enrich our analyses. If you would be willing to share a video or audiotape of your lesson study debriefing – focusing on science or mathematics – we will in return provide you with a transcript of your discussion. The names of discussion participants will be masked to protect their identity. (We may later request additional information from you to help us understand the context for the debriefing session.) If you have any questions about how this material will be used or about the study in general, please feel free to contact me at rperry@mills.edu or visit our project website: http://www.lessonresearch.net. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Rebecca Perry -- Rebecca Perry, Ph.D. Senior Research Associate U.S. - Japan Elementary Science Project Education Department Mills College 510-430-3217 rperry@mills.edu http://www.lessonresearch.net --- You are currently subscribed to lessonstudy as: smc90@columbia.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-lessonstudy-340215M@listserv.tc.columbia.edu