Changing Classroom Instruction: One Teacher's Perspective.
After many years of looking for effective teaching practices, a high school teacher now sees where the focus of change needs to be.
Intellectual engagement and other principles of mathematics instruction
What can American teachers learn about high-quality mathematics instruction from the Japanese teacher education process?
Ideas for Establishing Lesson-Study Communities
recently become interested in lesson study, a professional development approach popular in Japan, as a promising source of ideas for improving education (Stigler and Hiebert 1999). Numerous schools and school districts have attempted to use lesson study to improve their teaching practice and student learning (Council for Basic Education 2000; GermainMcCarthy 2001; Lewis 2002; Research for Better Schools 2002; Stepanek 2001; Weeks 2001). Teachers at one such school, Paterson Public School in Paterson, New Jersey, have been conducting lesson study since 1999. Cynthia Sanchez, a sixth-grade teacher, shared some of her experiences in Currents (2002), the Research for Better Schools newsletter: