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Gutierez, Sally Baricaua – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2015
In teacher education, a collection of research has established the importance of reflection in professional development. Lesson study, a popular professional development in Japan, incorporates reflection in one of its stages to enhance teachers' capacity to look into their enacted practices to improve their research lessons. However, there appear…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lesson Plans, Teaching Methods, Professional Development
Arani, Mohammad Reza Sarkar – Online Submission, 2006
I clarify in this chapter what Iran can learn from Japan's experience of jugyou kenkyuu(lesson study) model, and what we can apply to the Iranian educational context. The chapter also discusses the process, progress and challenges of incorporating jugyou kenkyuu into Iranian teacher training. I examine how Iranian teachers and school…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Collaboration, Lesson Plans, Reflective Teaching
Rock, Tracy C.; Wilson, Cathy – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2005
This article presents a professional development initiative developed by a university-school partnership based on the Japanese lesson-study model described by Stigler and Hiebert (1999) in "The Teaching Gap." Lesson study ("jugyoukenkyu"), an inquiry model of teacher professional development, is used extensively throughout…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Characteristics, Active Learning, Foreign Countries