1. 1. Lesson study is an exotic idea from a
foreign country.
~ lesson study is teacher-directed, since
teachers determine how to explore their
chosen goals and address student needs
through their examination of practice

2. ~Although lesson study is time-consuming, it can also be
highly rewarding, so finding time for it is not impossible once
teachers have made a commitment to the practice.

3. ~lesson study meetings can be run more
efficiently by assigning roles to group
members, distributing materials for
feedback beforehand

4. ~The concern that lesson study will not
allow practitioners to measure and
communicate their findings about student
performance.

5. ~While teachers may benefit from
standardized outcome measures of student
learning, lesson study provides ongoing
information that allows teachers to
continually tailor their teaching to their
students' learning needs.

6. ~the collaborative nature of lesson study allows
teachers to "fill in the blanks" for one another,
because the activity of planning a lesson together
creates many opportunities for teachers to learn
basic content from their colleagues.

7. ~lesson study is generally conducted in a way that shifts
the focus from evaluating the performance of the teacher
to assessing the instruction. In addition, ownership of the
lesson is diffused across the group of teachers who
planned the lesson.

8. ~the focus is not on deciding which teaching
philosophy is superior. Instead, the focus is on
trying out practices - representing any teaching
philosophy - in actual classrooms and then
determining the success of these practices

9. 1. Lesson study is about creating a unique,
original, or never-seen-before lesson.
~Parts of the lesson may be borrowed from a
textbook, modified from other lessons, or
derived from the existing curriculum

10. ~conduct lesson study for as many lessons as
possible.
~By engaging in the formal process of lesson
study, teachers will carry an informal "lesson
study mentality" into their daily practice

11. ~a lesson can never be "perfect." The
purpose of revising and re-teaching a lesson
is for teachers to reflect on what they
learned from implementing the lesson in the
classroom, what it taught them about the
goal they set out to explore, and how to
improve their practice.

12. ~The teachers who conduct lesson study
plan their lessons with a particular goal in
mind and for the specific needs of their
students and classrooms.

13. ~Like a map, lesson study is a tool for going
somewhere. But the important questions
to keep in mind are where we want to go,
how we want to get there, and what
signposts we will use along the way.

17. Once teachers make a commitment to
professionalize their teaching
experiences, they can invite others to
challenge them and help them achieve
their goals.

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