Primary 4 CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel

Lesson Study at CHIJ Our Lady of Good Counsel

Visitors, comprising mostly school leaders, from England and the US got a glimpse into one way Singapore teachers develop themselves.

We gate-crashed the lesson study efforts of two mathematics teams.

This achor task was meant to help students see that a composite figure consists of simple rectangles (and squares). 

In the subsequent guided practice, the group I was observed, confused between perimeter and area. I would suggest rephrasing the question as how many times is the figure as big as a 1-square cm. However, the bigger question is how do we help such students possess the metacognitive ability to know that they were doing something incorrect, which they did in rapid succession and not stopping to say that they may be wrong.

Students had difficulties in distinguishing area from perimeter, in seeing the component rectangles and using correct information in the formula to calculate area of rectangles. How can the anchor task be tweaked to help the weakest students in overcoming these difficulties? I imagine the revised lesson plan would consider these points and also how to help more students reach the highest level response (saying that the area formula for square and rectangle are the same and seeing the subtraction method in finding area of composite figures). The team members saw the benefits of (1) time provided to explore (2) time for discussion (3) use of concrete manipulative. These were the three main points raised during the very brief post-lesson discussion we did. I suppose the team will discussed this at greater length subsequently  | Lesson Study May Bee

Primary 5 Chua Chu Kang Primary School

Observation - students raced through each problem indicating that they had no difficulty in reading and comprehending the word problems given. They seemed to thrive on higher-order questions the teacher threw at them eg how are the methods alike, how are they different, which is better, which one would you use.

Less is More

Instead of doing five problems, one anchor tasks will do the same thing and perhaps more.

"Ali, Ben and Cheryl share some money in the ratio of 4:2:1.

What if $28 is the greatest amount?

What if $28 is the total amount?

What if $28 is how much more Ali received than Ben?

What if $28 is how much Ali and Ben received? What is the greatest number of 50-cent coins Ben has? What is the greatest number of 20-cent coins Ben has? What if how much Ali and Ben has is not $28 but $432? In this case, what is the least number of coins Ben has?

 

Lesson Study at Chua Chu Kang Primary School

In this and other discussions, we will pay attention to knowledge of (a) curriculum (b) content (c) students (d) ourselves.

Lesson Study Publication

 

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LSP102 Lesson Planning

This course was held at Punggol Primary School on 9 January 2014.

LSP102 Lesson Planning in Lesson Study from Jimmy Keng

Concluding Lesson Study

Concluding Lesson Study from Jimmy Keng

Lesson Study at Japanese School in Connecticut

Please save the date: Greenwich Japanese School Open House, Friday, 15 November 2013

Place: Greenwich, CT

The public research lessons have been confirmed:

Apple (Special Education): Mathematics in Shopping 

Gr. 3: Multiplication Algorithm - Two-digit times one-digit

Gr. 5: Investigating Interior Angles 

Gr. 7: 3-D Figures - Spatial Figures (Polyhedrons)

Lesson plans will be sent to Open House participants.

Detailed information will be available by next week at www.globaledresources.com

APEC Khon Kaen International Symposium on Lesson Study

APEC Khon Kaen International Symposium 2013 Yeap from Jimmy Keng

This is the presentation I made at the APEC session.

WALS2013 Gothenburg

Opening Ceremony

Keynote Lecture 1 Makoto Yoshida (USA)
Keynote Lecture 2 Chen Xiangming (China)
Both spoke about the use of lesson study as a vehicle for reforms. Yoshida used mthematics education while Chen used language education as examples.

Keynote Lecture 3 John Elliott (UK)
Elliott spoke about how lesson study exemplifies Teacher as researcher idea made popular by Stenhouse. Elliotte is well known in the field of action research.

Day 1 comprised three keynote lectures.

MyNotes of the lectures are available here

Day 2 comprised of one keynotes and four plenary sessions with many concurrent sessions.

Keynote Lecture 4 on early childhood education was by Ingrid P. Samuelsson (Sweden) and Keynote Lecture 4 was by Ference Marton and Ulla Runesson (Sweden).

The Plenary Sessions were on special education, teacher education, teacher research, school development from principals' perspectives, and early childhood. There was also a plenary on progress and resistance in lesson study. I am involved in the plenary on early childhood with Kiyomi Akita (Japan) and Camilla Bjorklund (Sweden). The slides I used in summing up their presentations are available here.

Details for WALS2013 in Bandung

Lesson Study at PCF Kindergartens

Lesson Study Overview Lecture for PCF Kindergartens from Jimmy Keng

Mass Lecture on 4 September 2013

Bandung 2014

World Association for Lesson Study WALS International Conferences

Singapore 2012

The conference brought together about 1200 delegates from 25 countries across the globe. The largest contingent was from Singapore, followed by Sweden, Japan and Indonesia. For the first time ever, WALS had representatives from 8 new countries: Bahrain, Ghana, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, South Africa and Uzbekistan. The programme included 3 keynote addresses, 6 plenary sessions, 238 papers, 19 symposia, 9 workshops, 41 posters and school visits. The organizing committee was warmly thanked for providing an excellent conference. 

Sweden 2013

This year the WALS conference chaired by Associate Professor Mona Holmqvist, held in Gothenburg between 6 – 9 September, has attracted more than 600 delegates from 29 countries. It is a significant WALS conference because it is the first to be held outside East Asia. The theme, “Learning and Lesson Study as Teacher Research” is being explored through 5 keynotes addresses, plenary sessions, symposia, workshops, poster exhibits and culminates in school visits.

Indonesia 2014

This conference, chaired by Dr Sumar Hendayana, will be held at the  Indonesia University of Education in Bandung from November 25 – 28 2014.  The theme is “Becoming Reflective Educators and Professionals of Learning”.  This conference has received support from the Indonesian Ministry of  Education and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The first call  for papers will go out on 30 November 2013.

Dunman High School

Facilitating Lesson Study Discussion from Jimmy Keng

Lesson Study in Early Childhood Settings

This will happen on 4 September 2013.

This lecture is about the process of lesson study and how it provides teachers with professional development in content, pedagogy and content-pedagogical knowledge. The speaker will describes each stage of the process and what each stake holder can do to maximise the impact of lesson study.

It is given by Dr Yeap Ban Har.

Dr Yeap Ban Har is the principal of Marshall Cavendish Institute and also Director of Curriculum and Professional Development at Pathlight School. He teaches mathematics education courses all over the world and taught at National Institute of Education for a decade prior to his current appointments in 2010. In early childhood education, he teaches courses at SEED Institute / Wheelock College and SIM University. In lesson study, he is Singapore's specialist at APEC Lesson Study research group. He is also a council member at World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS). In WALS 2013 in Sweden, he will participate in a  plenary session on lesson study in early childhood setting with professors from Sweden and Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics education and Master of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies (NUS) and Master of Education (NIE/NTU).

Lesson Study Trip to Nagoya

Nagoya Lesson Study Programme from Jimmy Keng

Readings

Some articles on lesson study

Article 1

Article 2

Teck Ghee Primary School together with other schools in S6 Cluster used a modified version of lesson study in their cluster professional development.

Lesson Study Open House @ North Vista Primary School

NVPS Lesson Study Open House from Jimmy Keng

LESSON STUDY (LS) OPEN HOUSE 2013 ~ PUBLIC RESEARCH LESSONS

North Vista Primary School is honoured to organize the LESSON STUDY (LS) OPEN HOUSE 2013 ~ PUBLIC RESEARCH LESSONS, with the support from MOE North 1 Cluster and Citi-NIE, to benefit our education fraternity. We cordially invite teachers from all schools to attend the Lesson Study (LS) Open House.

The theme this year is “Teachers as Researchers”. 

For any good school that seeks to engage its learners, the key success factor is the quality of its teaching staff. 

Lesson Study is one of the key Professional Development Community (PLC) tools that our school utilizes to improve our instructional practices that in turn lead to improved student learning outcomes.

Using this Open House as a platform, we hope to promote LS as an effective Professional Development tool for Singapore teachers. Participants will have opportunities to observe one of the four concurrent research lessons in Primary Mathematics, Primary Science, Malay Language and Physical Education and participate in the post-lesson discussions which will be facilitated by our invited knowledgeable others from MOE and NIE. Kindly refer to the attachments on the details on the abstracts of the lesson study lessons, knowledgeable others and the programme.

Dr. Yeap Ban Har, Principal of Marshall Cavendish Institute will deliver the keynote address.

Date:       23 July 2013

Time:      2.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. (Registration and Lunch from 1 pm)

Venue:    North Vista Primary School

Fee:       $10 per participant (for lunch, refreshments and resources)

Lesson Study @ Evergreen Primary School

This is the introduction lecture at the school.

Lesson Study Overview from Jimmy Keng

EARCOME6 Lesson Study Lecture

EARCOME 6 from Jimmy Keng

Photographs of the grade one open lesson is available on MCI's Facebook.

Lesson Study Overview at Princess Elizabeth Primary School

Lesson Study Overview from Jimmy Keng

Singapore Math & Lesson Study in Florida

Singapore Math througfh Lesson Study from Jimmy Keng