A Tool for Planning and Describing Lesson Study
Section One: (To be completed during Strategies and Tools for Implementing Lesson Study:
Session Two)
1. School Name: [Name and location of your school]
2. Team Members: [Names of all team members]
3. Narrative Overview/Background Information:
[1. Provide information about the classroom and/or school settings in which the
study will be implemented.
2. Introduce all team members with a brief overview of their teaching experience
as well as other information that personalizes your project Describe the students
involved in the lesson study: What strengths/weaknesses do student display
based upon formative and summative data? What motivates them? What
individual student differences exist?
3. Describe the students involved in the lesson study: What
strengths/weaknesses do student display based upon formative and summative
data? What motivates them? What individual student differences exist?]
.
Section Two: (To be completed during Strategies and Tools for Implementing Lesson Study:
Session Three)
1. Lesson Study Focus: [What is the focus of your lesson and how was it
determined by your team? Support your decision with available
formative/summative data.]
2. Anticipated Results: [What enduring understandings and essential questions are to
be addressed? What should students know at the end of this lesson? What will be the
evidence(s) of understanding to be generated by students? What can be achieved from
this lesson? How might the lesson development/implementation process enhance
teacher learning and improve instruction?]
3. CSO’s to be Addressed: [Provide the CSO number(s) and text to be addressed
in the lesson. CSOs should be framed around enduring understandings and
essential questions.]
4. Goals of the lesson study: [Your goals should reflect the (1) issues about
instructional practices to be explored through your work together, (2) specific
plans and approaches for how to engage in this exploration, and (3) a
commitment to assessing activities against these goals.]
Section Three: (To be completed during Strategies and Tools for Implementing Lesson Study:
Session Four)
1. Title of Lesson: [Name of the lesson study.]
2. Relation of the Lesson to the Curriculum: [What prior knowledge is necessary to
learn the content that is the focus of this lesson (Relate this to the previous grade level)?
What new knowledge can be developed form the concepts that students will learn in this
unit (Relate this to the current grade level)? What future knowledge will be dependent
upon the content mastered during this lesson (Relate this to the next grade level)? Look
to http://www.lessonresearch.net/FinalHiroko.pdf as an example.]
3. Lesson Study Process: [The following chart describes what you have planned and
expect to happen throughout the lesson.]
Steps of the
Lesson:
Learning activities
1. Description
2. Guiding
questions
3. Essential
Question(s)
4. Goal(s)
5. Time
allocation
Student Activities
Teacher’s
Response
Assessment of
Student Learning
Student activities that
correspond to the
learning activities:
1. Expected
Student
reaction/respo
nses
Planned responses to
student
reactions/responses
to activities.
Methods by which
student learning will
be assessed and
applied to future
learning
activities/lesson study
iterations.
Teacher notesimportant items to be
remembered
Section Four: Protocols (To be completed during Strategies and Tools for Implementing
Lesson Study: Session Five.)
Provide copies and/or descriptions of all protocols to be used. Protocols should be included for
team meetings, lesson study observations and examining student work.
5. Managing the Process (To be completed during Strategies and Tools for Implementing
Lesson Study: Session Six.)
[Define a process for conducting the study and working with team members once the study has
begun:
Schedule: When will the study begin? What is the schedule for the implementation of the
study (number of days required per team member? What is the total number of days?)
What is the order in which the team members will teach the lesson?
Observation: Who will observe the lessons being taught? How will the observations take
place? What be the focus of the observation? Do observation tools/forms need to be
developed to assist this process?
Debriefing: When will the teams meet to debrief after the lesson has been taught? What
protocol will be followed? What artifacts of student work are to be discussed? What
process will be used to revise the lesson activities, student activities and assessments?
Reflection (Group and Individual): How will you “capture” your teams and individual
impressions (discussions, concerns, challenges, issues, successes) of the process as it
is being implemented?]
E. Appendix: [A list of the materials, handouts and student work samples to be gathered as the
lesson has been taught.]