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CONTENTS
Lesson Study: a handbook…………………...………………………………………..……48
Why conduct a Lesson Study? ...........................................................................................50
Getting Lesson Study going ……………………………………………..............……….52
Planning the first Research lesson and identifying the ’case pupils’…………….............54
Teaching the first research lesson……………………………………......………………..56
Interviewing case pupils after the lesson………………………………….......…………..58
The post research lesson discussion ……………………………………………......…….59
Formally sharing the outcomes with other professionals ………………………….......…61
Creating time for lesson study and building it into school systems ……………......……62
Using LS coaches to support and develop the professional learning from Lesson Study and
using the lesson study model as a platform for cross
departmental or school
to school coaching…………….......................................................………………………63
References…………………..……………………………………………………….…….64
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Emeritus
Professor,
University of Leicester, Secretary of the
International Association of Lesson Study, PhD (United Kingdom).
Peter Dudley taught for many years in Primary and Secondary
schools in East London and abroad. He has held leadership roles
in a number of school districts in England and for 5
years was
Director of the UK Governments Primary National Strategy. An
education writer and researcher, Peter introduced Lesson Study into
the UK in 2001 leading and advising a large number of national
development and research LS programs in the past 12 years and
government policy. Peter is Honorary
General Secretary of the
World Association of Lesson Studies. His recent research ‘How Teachers Learn in contexts
of Lesson Study’ was a runner up in the British Educational Research Association doctoral
awards 2012.