Lesson study

Lessons for Learning: using lesson study to innovate, develop and transfer pedagogic approaches and metapedagog

What Lesson Study Is

Lesson Study involves a group of teachers improving pedagogic practice in an area of teaching revealed by their data to need improving. They do this by researching approaches likely to make the difference they seek and then systematically carrying out a sequence of jointly planned, taught and analysed ‘research lessons’. Once they have developed an approach which they feel is replicable they share what they have done with colleagues either though a presentation, through a ‘public research lesson’ (popular in Japan where the lesson is taught in the school hall before an invited audience of local teachers and advisers and is followed by a discussion involving adults and the children) or shared by members of the group working with other teachers using the lesson study cycle to develop the approach elsewhere.

To read more on the background to lesson study, click here.