The Education Endowment Foundation has recently announced support for 8 new programmes, one of which is Lesson Study. The EEF is contributing £545,000 towards the £1 million funding of a two-year trial in three regions of the UK (North West, South West and the East, involving schools in 10 Local Authorities).
Kevan Collins, Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said Lesson study is a hugely promising model of professional collaboration and, if proven to be effective, could be a method of embedding research informed teaching throughout the country.( EEF Press Release)
The programme, which will start in September 2013, will involve a Randomised Controlled trial over two years (Sept 2013- August 2015) to investigate the impact of Lesson Study. 80 primary schools will receive training and support, with the target being on Y4 and 5 teachers and the pedagogic focus being guided work embedding talk for learning in literacy and mathematics.
Alongside class teachers, we will train a ‘specialist’ (e.g. Curriculum or Subject Leader, MAST, AST, Leading Teacher, Numbers Count or Reading Recovery Teacher) in both the pedagogical focus and Lesson Study itself.
The programme will be delivered through the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University and will be led by two Expert Advisers, Di Hatchett and Gill Jordan.
Di Hatchett said ‘ We are delighted to have secured this grant from the Education Endowment Foundation, which will enable us to work with around 400 primary teachers from different parts of the country and to robustly evaluate the impact of this Lesson Study programme through the Randomised Controlled Trial process to be carried out by researchers from the London School of Economics’.
Gill Jordan said ‘This is a very exciting step in the development of Lesson Study in the UK. We are looking forward to working with schools over the next two years’.
The Education Endowment Foundation is a charity set up in 2011 by the Sutton Trust as lead foundation in partnership with Impetus Trust, with a Department for Education grant of £125m. It is dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement. Since its launch the EEF has awarded £28.7 million to 56 projects working with over 300,000 pupils in over 1,800 schools across England.
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