Lesson study, known in Japanese as jugyo kenkyu, is a teaching improvement process that originated in Japanese elementary education, where it remains a widespread professional development practice. Working in a small group, teachers collaborate with one another, meeting to discuss learning goals, planning an actual classroom lesson called a research lesson, observing how their ideas work in a live lesson with students, and then reporting on the results so other teachers can benefit from what they learned. Although lesson study is the most common English translation, jugyo kenkyu can also be rendered as instructional research, lesson research or study of instruction, translations that better convey that the process usually aims to improve instruction generally rather than to refine one single lesson.
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Core ClaimLesson study is a collaborative teaching-improvement process, with origins in Japanese elementary education, in which a small group of teachers plans a lesson together, observes it taught live as a research lesson, and then discusses the results so that other teachers can learn from it. 1 Classification
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Working in a small group, teachers collaborate with one another, meeting to discuss learning goals, planning an actual classroom lesson (called a "research lesson"), observing how their ideas work in a live lesson with students, and then reporting on the results so that other teachers can benefit from it.
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Lesson study, known in Japanese as jugyo kenkyu, is a teaching improvement process that originated in Japanese elementary education, where it remains a widespread professional development practice.
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