Saturday, October 6, 2012

Sustaining Program of Lesson Study Activity

After analysing the results of monitoring and evaluation, the team uses it to design the following lesson study, revise instruments, and write a summary of a research seminar. Instruments in the monitoring and evaluation should be well-documented to support this writing and to publish in journals or to present in a seminar. The publication would greatly be advantageous for other teachers or educationists on the development of lesson. Thus one of the efforts to sustain the program of lesson study is by presenting seminar or conference for disseminating the result of doing lesson study (for example annual conference of lesson study).

 Another effort to sustain the program is hosting an open house or open class as mentioned by Jennifer Stepanek et al, that open to help to broaden the lesson study community. When lesson study teams present their research lesson in an open house, they gain additional insight into their work. Open houses are also a means for spreading professional knowledge. The teachers share what they have learned with colleagues outside the team. Open house can help to build a network of teachers and other educators to support lesson study.

The team has an opportunity to discuss the benefits and challenges of doing lesson study with other experienced practitioners. But the most important thing to sustain the lesson study activities is to make sure that the lesson study is useful for the teachers to improve their professionalism. Besides, the commitment of the teachers to do lesson study is also very important. Of course, all of this needs financial supporting and a good planning.

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