Toolkit

The CLR Toolkit aims to provide resources for groups wishing to get started on, and sustain lesson study. There are two sections to the toolkit:

a fixed set of resources that focus on Adopting a Collaborative Lesson Research approach to Professional Learning;
a more dynamic set of resources that we will grow over time to support sustaining Collaborative Lesson Research.

Adopting Collaborative Lesson Research

Tools:

Overview of Lesson Study

Lesson study as CLR

CLR as PD

Research themes and questions

Before you start

Roles and responsibilities

Leadership in CLR

Getting started

Participating in Collaborative Lesson Research

Tools

Planning for CLR - Research themes and questions

First Planning meeting

Further planning meetings

Pre-lesson briefing

Observing research lessons 1

Observing research lessons 2

Post-lesson discussions

The next CLR cycle

The Outbreak Problem Solving Lesson

The starting point of this lesson was the Outbreak lesson sequence from the Bowland website www.bowlandmaths.org.uk/projects/outbreak.html. The task concerns an infectious disease spreading within a city under quarantine. Two vaccinations exist, and students are given their costs and percentage effectiveness, and told that a budget of £5m is available. Students are asked to recommend how many of each vaccine should be made and who should get them.

About this toolkit: This toolkit was authored by Geoff Wake of the Centre for Research in Mathematics Education of the University of Nottingham for CLR-UK.
Feel free to use the kit but please remember to give credit if you use, quote or adapt any part of it. © CLR-UK 2023