Collaborative lesson study : revisioning teacher professional development /

"Lesson Study is a conceptually simple but powerful process for instructional improvement. This book goes beyond providing a step-by-step guide for enacting Lesson Study. By emphasizing teachers' roles as instructional decision-makers, readers are empowered to take an agentive stance as pr...

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Main Author: Collet, Vicki (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2019]
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Summary:"Lesson Study is a conceptually simple but powerful process for instructional improvement. This book goes beyond providing a step-by-step guide for enacting Lesson Study. By emphasizing teachers' roles as instructional decision-makers, readers are empowered to take an agentive stance as producers, rather than consumers, of curriculum. ReVisioning provides tools for developing and maintaining a stance of flexibility and responsiveness, recognizing that teaching is improvable, but not perfectible. The book offers structures for attending to students' cultures, interests, knowledge, and values when planning, teaching, reflecting, and revising instruction. The Lesson Study cycle expounded in this book creates a climate for ongoing growth and reVisioning of practice that values teaching and teachers, learning and students"--
Physical Description:x, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0807763071
080776308X
9780807763070
9780807763087