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Before beginning the first lesson-study cycle the teachers in each Lesson Study Group need to engage with some set-up activities and meetings.
Introductory online session Tuesday 24 March 2026 4-5.30pm. This will include some overall project information and break-out meetings for each regional LS group. You will host your LS group in this part of the meeting. Some slides are provided for you to use in this session, with guidelines for timings during the session. You will need to cover group introductions, providing an overview of the project, reflecting on the videos they have watched, introducing and using the reflective journals, briefly introducing the first lesson.
it is a good idea to have a preliminary start-up meeting in which the group thinks through the overall process and there is an opportunity for participants to ask any questions that they may have.
A presentation you could use to introduce Lesson Study may be found here:Running a workshop on lesson study
In this meeting, you could address issues including:
It is sensible to set the date of the research lesson as early as possible, so that everyone knows that that is the date that they are working towards. This will need to fit in with school constraints and the availability of the outside expert.
Planning meetingsIt is sensible to schedule about 3 planning meetings, of perhaps 1-1.5 hours each. In between these, participants can email various draft versions of the lesson plan to each other for comments/modifications. Suggestions for what you might do at each meeting are given here: 1, 2 and 3.
Reflection meetingIt can be useful to schedule a reflection meeting after the first cycle and at the end of a year. This gives participants the opportunity to think through what has been learned so far and to consider the future aims of the group.(If there is time, there could also be one in the second term, but this is not essential, and not shown in the timeline below.)
TimelineA typical timeline is shown below. You can start a CLR group at any point during the year, so "Term 1" does not need to be the Autumn term.
MARCH 2026
Teachers will be asked to:
Complete a short baseline survey for the project - this will be sent out by the project lead by email with a tight deadline. You may be asked to communicate with teachers in your group if they have not met the deadline for completion.
Watch two introductory videos: one on lesson study and one on Japanese problem solving approaches. It is important that you have also watched these videos as you will be hosting a discussion in the following live session.
All project participants (Teachers and Group Leads - and school leaders will be invited) attend:
Introductory online session Tuesday 24 March 2026 4-5.30pm. This will include some overall project information and break-out meetings for each regional LS group. You will host your LS group in this part of the meeting. Some slides are provided for you to use in this session, with guidelines for timings during the session. You will need to cover group introductions, providing an overview of the project, reflecting on the videos they have watched, introducing and using the reflective journals, briefly introducing the first lesson.
it is a good idea to have a preliminary start-up meeting in which the group thinks through the overall process and there is an opportunity for participants to ask any questions that they may have.
A presentation you could use to introduce Lesson Study may be found here:Running a workshop on lesson study
In this meeting, you could address issues including:
- The purpose of the lesson-study process
- Who is participating, in what ways and what commitment is expected
- When planning meetings will be scheduled and who will attend them
- How participants will keep in touch in between meetings (e.g., email, wiki)
- When the first research lesson will be and who will teach it
- Who will be the outside expert and what role they will play
It is sensible to set the date of the research lesson as early as possible, so that everyone knows that that is the date that they are working towards. This will need to fit in with school constraints and the availability of the outside expert.
Planning meetingsIt is sensible to schedule about 3 planning meetings, of perhaps 1-1.5 hours each. In between these, participants can email various draft versions of the lesson plan to each other for comments/modifications. Suggestions for what you might do at each meeting are given here: 1, 2 and 3.
Reflection meetingIt can be useful to schedule a reflection meeting after the first cycle and at the end of a year. This gives participants the opportunity to think through what has been learned so far and to consider the future aims of the group.(If there is time, there could also be one in the second term, but this is not essential, and not shown in the timeline below.)
TimelineA typical timeline is shown below. You can start a CLR group at any point during the year, so "Term 1" does not need to be the Autumn term.
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