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Research Lesson Process

This process involves teachers collectively designing a lesson around a specific research focus (called the overarching lesson study goal) and an identified content concept. In developing the lesson, teachers discuss and decide what they want the students to learn from the lesson, what they want to learn from the lesson, how this lesson fits in the curriculum for the year, and how to plan the research lesson.

As the teachers discuss and plan the research lesson, they make sure that the lesson addresses the overarching lesson study goal and the research goals. Also, they anticipate what reactions, questions, or strategies students may have during the lesson. Based on these anticipations, they construct the lesson to address these responses, questions, and/or strategies that students may have. Following are the components of a research lesson that are carefully planned by the teachers.

Building a context for the lesson
Laying the framework for the learning experience
Engaging students with concepts
Sharing ideas/solutions
Closure/Summarizing

Once the research lesson is planned, the teachers follow the next step of the lesson study process of observing, reflecting, and revising.

The processes and documents described above were significantly influenced by the work of James Stigler and James Hiebert, authors of The Teaching Gap, and workshop materials from Clea Fernandez and the Lesson Study Research Group. These processes and materials are continuously evolving as we adjust them to the unique needs and challenges of the teachers, students and environment of New Mexico.

* MathNM would like to acknowledge MathStar for the materials they developed.



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