Full Description
This insightful volume offers an overview of the fundamentals of lesson student practice in US teacher education as well as examples from math and science teacher educators using lesson study in their local contexts.
The number of teacher educators using lesson study with preservice teachers is small but growing. This book is aimed at teacher educators who may want to try lesson study in university contexts without the challenge of translating the practice from the K-12 context on their own. In this volume, lesson study is broadly overviewed, attention is given to its constituent steps, and examples of lesson study in preservice contexts are shared. Given the broad array of teacher education program designs, numerous contingencies guide teacher educators in their implementation of lesson study, given their contextual affordances and limitations.
The lesson study descriptions and cases in this book will support teacher educators and scholars across subject specialities and geographic lines, as they seek instructional frameworks to advance their pedagogical goals.
Contents
Introduction: Tracing Lesson Study's Use with Preservice Teachers: From Origins to Present Day
Section 1: Lesson Study and Preservice Teacher Education
1. Contextualizing Teacher Education and Lesson Study in the United States
2. Preservice Mathematics Teachers' Decision-making during Lesson Study
3. Mentor Teachers' Four Intertwined Roles when Leading Lesson Study with Mathematics Preservice Teachers
Section 2: Lesson Study Steps in Preservice Teacher Education
4. The Prepare Step: Setting the Stage for Successful Lesson Study with Preservice Teachers
5. The Study Step: Building Preservice Teachers' Knowledge in Content and Pedagogy
6. The Plan Step: Extending Learning to Preservice Teachers in a Full Lesson Study Cycle
7. The Teach Step: Engaging Preservice Teachers in Effective Practice
8. The Reflect Step: Consolidating Learning and Setting Future Goals
Section 3: Lesson Study for Advancing Access and Equity
9. Preservice Teacher Learning About Equitable Practices Through Lesson Study
10. Lesson Study's Capacity to Develop Novice Teachers' Practice of Anti-Racist Pedagogies
11. Promoting Torres' Rights of the Learner with Elementary Preservice Teachers through Lesson Study
Section 4: Additional Examples of Lesson Study in Preservice Teacher Education
12. Using Lesson Study to Build Interdisciplinary STEM Collaborations at an Urban Commuter University
13. The Use of Lesson Study in the Online Teaching Environment to Support Preservice Science Teacher Learning
14. Use of Structured Video Reflection to Develop Teacher Noticing during Lesson Study
15. Promoting Interdisciplinary Connections and Mathematics Collaborations through Literacy-centered Lesson Study
16. Adapting Lesson Study for Preservice Teachers' Instruction and Learning
17. Mathematics Lesson Study for Early Professional Learning with Novel Partnerships
Conclusion: Finding Connections through Form
