Return-Path: Received: from listserv.tc.columbia.edu (listserv.tc.columbia.edu [128.59.202.50]) by apakabar.cc.columbia.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA21767 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:26:57 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:23:55 -0500 From: Jeanne Vissa Organization: University of Pennsylvania X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD NECCK (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Lesson Study Listserv" CC: Lesson Study Listserv , milesmye@pacbell.net, wilms@ucla.edu Subject: Re: Pre-lesson study training Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Unsubscribe: Reply-To: Jeanne Vissa these are important questions! Please include me on the responses! celeste campbell wrote: > > To those of you who have completed at least one cycle of lesson study -- > > What do you wish you had known or understood before you began that might be > accomplished with some up-front training? > > If you were designing a summer training workshop for teachers and > administrators who are interested in lesson study - what would you include? > > I am going to facilitate a novice lesson study team next fall and am > thinking through how to set them up for the most powerful experience > possible. > > What do you think of a 4-5 day summer workshop led by experienced Japanese > and American lesson study practitioners (and researchers?) who would serve > as coaches to the novices? > > Institute components: > A general overview of the lesson study research, structure, protocols > > Demonstration research lessons with the participants first observing > experienced observers then practicing collecting evidence of learning > themselves > > Debrief sessions so the participants can practice the reflection protocol > > Sessions with experienced LS practitioners on crafting the broad multi-year > lesson study goal and beginning discussions on the more narrow topic/concept > goal > > I see the benefits of such an experience before attempting lesson study on > one's own as three-fold: > > First - Simply to expose the interested teachers to the general process and > benefits > > Secondly - To help them begin to develop the essential lenses (researcher, > student, curriculum developer, etc.) Clea Fernandez, Makoto Yoshida and > Catherine Lewis talk about in their research > > Finally - to begin building a support network > > I appreciate any recommendations or lessons learned you can share. > > Celeste Campbell > UCLA Educational Leadership Program > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > --- > Since the purpose of this listserv is to provide a communication > network for individuals who are interested in lesson study, please > feel free to post messages about lesson-study related announcements, > events, and resources that you feel would be relevant to the lesson > study community. If you are interested in discussing in-depth > questions or insights, please use the collaborative lesson > study discussion forum to conduct these online conversations: > "www.tc.columbia.edu/lessonstudy/discussionforums.html". > > You are currently subscribed to lessonstudy as: jeannev@gse.upenn.edu > To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-lessonstudy-340215M@listserv.tc.columbia.edu --- Since the purpose of this listserv is to provide a communication network for individuals who are interested in lesson study, please feel free to post messages about lesson-study related announcements, events, and resources that you feel would be relevant to the lesson study community. If you are interested in discussing in-depth questions or insights, please use the collaborative lesson study discussion forum to conduct these online conversations: "www.tc.columbia.edu/lessonstudy/discussionforums.html". You are currently subscribed to lessonstudy as: smc90@columbia.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-lessonstudy-340215M@listserv.tc.columbia.edu