Lesson Study : a Handbook

Abstract

This booklet is a guide on how to use Lesson Study to develop and refine teaching, learning and teacher practice knowledge. The booklet will help you in: Getting Lesson Study going in school; Planning, teaching and analyzing the research lesson; Involving pupils in the process; Passing on to others the new practice knowledge you have gained in your Lesson Study; Leading Lesson Study. Lesson Study (LS) is a highly specified form of classroom action research focusing on the development of teacher practice knowledge. It has been in use in Japan since the 1870s. LS therefore pre-dates action research as we know it in the West, by some 70 years.