INDIVIDUAL REPORTS

Index

Why Lesson Design?                                                                                   

The Need for Attention to Teaching and Classroom Context            

Day Higuchi, President of the United Teachers of Los Angeles

A New Period of Lesson Study and Lesson Design?

The Introduction of Lesson Design in the United States

Where do Lesson Designs come from?                    

What are some Features of Lesson Design?

The Range of Participating Roles

The Use of the Chalk Board

The Purposes of homework

The Focus: One Central, Broad Problem or Several Small Problems

Distribution of Discussion

Connecting this one day to other days

Getting started

The experiential and the symbolic

Tightly and loosely organized groups

The subject matter

Mixing the cognitive and metacognitive

The Seating Chart and Knowing Student Names

Conclusion                                                                                                                

External Influences of Lesson Design

A Proposed Framework from Vivian Boyd

Proposal from Helen Duffy: Proposal and its educational significance          

Brief review of relevant research /policy

Description of methodology including proposed data collection and case development techniques

Importance to research and practice

Saturday Morning: Presentation from Mitch Gordon from Lesson Lab

Code Development Strategy

Summary of TIMSS-R Video Code Development Strategy

Dimensions for Analyzing Teaching                                      

Classroom Routines 

Actions of Participants          

Classroom Talk

Content

Climate                                                                                                          

Pamela Grossman and Peter Williamson: The Translation\Transformation of Disciplinary Knowledge into Pedagogy                                                           

After Lunch on Saturday: Makoto Yoshida

Patternson, New Jersey, Lesson Study Project

The Research Lesson

Teaching Techniques                                                                   

The Lesson Study Proces

Celeste Campbell’s notes on Makoto Yoshida

Mary Pat O’Connell, Principal at Highlands School

Pre-Lesson Study Training Ideas, March 2002   

Charlotte Higuchi, Director, Lesson Study Project of the United Teachers of Los Angeles

Jonathan Denholtz, Teachscape

Anne Watkins, New Teacher Center, Santa Cruz

Ruth Nathan, elementary teacher and University instructor

Marcia Russell, district technology coordinator

Robert Slavin Interview

Sunday Morning

One hour Video Tape of Grant Wiggins and Jay showing and discussing backward design

Kai Chu and Eileen Moy                                                                             

Readings: Lesson Study/Lesson Design Conference 

 

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