The webinar was shared by Dr. Eric Cheng and Professor Tetsuo Kuramoto. They will articulate the strategies to facilitate and sustain Lesson Study for teachers’ knowledge creation from the knowledge management perspective. Knowledge management in school education focuses on leveraging pedagogical knowledge as resources for instructional design and curriculum implementation. Lesson Study refers to a synergistic process of knowledge creation in which teachers…
Prof Emeritus Manabu Sato Received Prestigious Chinese Mingyuan Award for Education
Congratulations to our longstanding ExCo member Manabu Sato who has been given the prestigious Chinese Mingyuan Award for Education. This is the China equivalent of a Nobel prize. (This year’s only other recipient is U.S. educator Howard Gardner). This huge acknowledgement of and recognition for the sustained impact of Manabu’s work on education in China and across the world is…
Open Research Lessons in Continuous Professional Development
Teachers interested in Lesson Study were invited to experience two open research lessons at the practice school of the University College of Teacher Education in Lower Austria. A vivid exchange of ideas on the pupils’ learning during the competence-oriented units “The Mixed-up Chameleon” and “Das Elfchen” followed a practical and theoretical discussion of the lessons guided by the teachers, who…
Training Lesson Study Kindergarten Teachers at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Under the name ‘Pelatihan Lesson Study untuk Guru Taman Kanak-Kanak Kota Bandung’ the Educational Psychology department of the Graduate School of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) organized a training Lesson Study for kindergarten teachers in the area of Bandung city on Friday 4 October 2019. The head of the department, Dr. Tina Hayati Dahlan invited six teams of teachers from Islamic…