{"id":2775,"date":"2017-09-02T14:32:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T14:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morphmatters.com\/SLAW\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:30:55","slug":"research-lesson-study-a-handbook-for-teacher-school-and-system-leaders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/morphmatters.com\/wals-new-theme\/research-lesson-study-a-handbook-for-teacher-school-and-system-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Lesson Study: a handbook for teacher-, school- and system-leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2775\" class=\"elementor elementor-2775\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-48812bff elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"48812bff\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7e440316\" data-id=\"7e440316\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6680c8f elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6680c8f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.8.1 - 13-11-2022 *\/\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-con{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}<\/style>\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35c66f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"35c66f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.8.1 - 13-11-2022 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Research Lesson Study: a handbook for teacher-, school- and system-leaders.<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-580f31f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"580f31f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.8.1 - 13-11-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"v1elementToProof\">Research Lesson Study (RLS) is a variant of lesson study developed by former WALS President Peter Dudley.\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"v1elementToProof\">\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"v1elementToProof\">It was first developed with UK teachers and school leaders between 2000 and 2005 to create a model that could be used in an English schools-system context. As a result it introduces elements such as:\u00a0<b><\/b><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7660eae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7660eae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul style=\"list-style: disc;\"><li><div class=\"v1elementToProof\">A dialogic &#8216;Teacher Talk Protocol&#8217; designed to create safe professional space where teachers, leaders and expert practitioners can work together to create new practice knowledge by thinking together in contexts of lesson study<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"v1elementToProof\">A sequence of two or three research lessons<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"v1elementToProof\">A lesson study group of two or three teachers who conduct and analyse their research lessons before making them public to colleagues, local educators or beyond<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"v1elementToProof\">A focus on all students &#8211; but also on specific &#8216;case students&#8217; that helps to develop our noticing skills and allows the professional blind spots we develop as teachers to be revealed to us through collaborative planning and post-lesson discussion<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"v1elementToProof\">A deliberate practice that enables our invisible, tacit knowledge \u00a0to become &#8216;seeable&#8217; and as a result: changeable.<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2637d18 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2637d18\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"v1elementToProof\">These elements have been adopted in many lesson study practices that have since developed across the UK, Europe and Central Asia. RLS is also one of the most widely evaluated forms of lesson study in a number of large-scale studies conducted in the UK and Japan between 2011 and 2023. These collectively show that RLS is popular with teachers and leaders, helps to raise standards and yo improve learning and schools and is one of the only such approaches that has the potential to close attainment gaps between under-achieving student-groups and all students.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"v1elementToProof\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"v1elementToProof\">The RLS handbook is available in 8 languages. The sixth (2025) edition of the Dialogic Lesson Study Handbook can be downloaded from the Camtree (Cambridge Teacher Research Exchange) platform at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. This version supports teacher-leaders, school leaders and system leaders to conduct research lesson studies and, in-particular, supports them not only to conduct robust lesson studies and to share their findings and co-evolved practices with their colleagues, but also&nbsp;<i>and for the first time<\/i>, it supports teachers to write and publish their lesson study reports in the Camtree library where they can be used by teachers around the world. This handbook also provides addional guidance on analysing stdudents&#8217; &#8216;exporatory talk&#8217; in research lessons.<\/div>\n<div class=\"v1elementToProof\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"v1elementToProof\">Camtree (<a id=\"v1OWAd8fd3cf0-b9bc-0f99-b3b7-8469cd64f479\" class=\"v1OWAAutoLink\" href=\"https:\/\/camtree.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/camtree.org\/<\/a>) was co-founded by Pete Dudley and exists to support, promote, publish, curate, and synthesise teacher research for the benefit of the profession; to help create new professional knowledge; and to benefit education policy-formation which in most countries is seldom informed by research conducted by teachers themselves.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"v1elementToProof\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"v1elementToProof\"><b>The link to the new sixth edition is below<\/b>.&nbsp;<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9470ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"e9470ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/assets.camtree.org\/lesson_study\/LS_Camtree_Handbook_2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-md\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Download Handbook<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c3237d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2c3237d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"v1elementToProof\">If you are interested in using its accompanying Workbook to guide your lesson study and notetaking, Camtree can help transform your lesson study notes into a draft report and a draft structured abstract of which you an your colleagues are authors and can then edit and add any additional information you feel is needed before you submit it for publication on the Camtree platform at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. This information can be found in the handbook itself.<\/div><div class=\"v1elementToProof\">\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"v1elementToProof\">Earlier editions of the handbook exist in\u00a0<b>Spanish, Turkish, Russian, German, Kazakh, Bahasa, Welsh<\/b>\u00a0and English and are\u00a0<b>available from\u00a0<\/b><b><a id=\"v1anchor-d1d79f29-11ec-92bf-30ce-63efa640de46\" href=\"https:\/\/lessonstudy.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/lessonstudy.co.uk\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Lesson Study: a handbook for teacher-, school- and system-leaders. 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