A recent Lesson Study project, partly funded by Every Child a Chance Trust, focused on the role of expert teachers in supporting guided group work within their schools. A total of eight primary schools selected a literacy theme and ten schools selected a mathematics theme.
The schools were asked to identify a member of the leadership team to take overall responsibility for the initiative and to ensure completion of all required reporting and dissemination work. In addition, the schools identified two class teachers to undertake the Lesson Study cycles and either the ECaR ( Every Child a Reader) or the ECC ( Every Child Counts) teacher. These expert teachers have high levels of training and skills in literacy and mathematics and became part of the Lesson Study group, introducing new ideas and supporting their colleagues.
You can download case studies from the project below.
Belfield Community School Rochdale Maths : Using Lesson Study to develop teaching approaches for girls who are quiet and lack confidence in mathematics.
Belfield Primary School Rochdale Maths 2 : Using Lesson Study to support underachieving White British boys with telling the time and solving time problems.
St Christopher’s Liverpool. Reading in Reception : Using Lesson Study to develop the teaching strategies taught in early years guided reading, to facilitate the skills of the children to become independent readers, utilising staff knowledge across the key stages in the primary school.
St Christopher’s Liverpool. Reading Year 1 : Using Lesson Study to develop teaching strategies that enable reluctant readers to become independent learners during guided reading sessions in Year1.
St Christopher’s Liverpool. Reading Year 6 : Using Lesson Study to aid in the development and accelerated progress of underachieving Year 6 pupils. To identify strategies that have the greatest impact upon reading development in a short focused teacher led session.
St Francis de Sales Year 1 and 2 Reading : Using Lesson Study to develop strategies for reading comprehension with a group of Y1 and Y2 Reading Recovery children.
Heybrook Mathematics case study : Using Lesson Study to develop an episodic lesson for mathematics to provide children with more opportunities to consolidate and reinforce previous learning.
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