Hi everyone I wanted to post about my great experience last Friday with Tanny's salad lesson. Two colleagues and I are in the first cycle of a lesson study. My first grade colleague taught her lesson and then we met to debrief how it went. If you are unfamiliar with lesson study, it is usually done with math and science. It is less common with Language Arts. You start with an expert lesson...often in a curriculum guide... and then plan to teach it with your colleagues. You spend special attention on how you anticipate students will respond. Then one colleague teaches the lesson while the others observe. You decide in advance what the watchers will look for. You debrief afterward...with the teacher who taught the lesson going first.... talking about what worked and what didn't. What worked....the kids were all very engaged...the salad visual was very powerful. What we decided to tweak...having the kids use an every pupil response to see if they really knew when the teacher was reading and when she was thinking. We also decided that we would need to use different text with the older children that I would be teaching (I teach the next round) in order to ensure that the students would have enough to think about. What a process though....this really isn't about the comprehension lesson...it is about the process...about dialoguing with trusted colleagues about teaching and learning. If you ever get the chance to try it...go for it! It is wonderful! Jennifer
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