> > I've been wondering as we progress through this discussion if the Marilyn > Burns group (Math Solutions) has done extensive work with lesson study > because what she continuously provides is the finessed lesson that you all > are talking about. It's both encouraging and discouraging, though, to wonder > how deeply the thinking about teaching is when it isn't constructed by > teachers involved. It's very nice to have wonderful lessons "modeled" for > you in a book, and nicer still when you see her videos, but can it ever come > close to the professional development open to us if we construct our own. > This may be something that second best (trying to replicate Marilyn's fabuous > lessons gained through a receptive process only) is a far distant second from > The Real Deal. Of course, I've known many teachers that have indeed become > more thoughtful, reflective practitioners after living a Marilyn lesson, so > who knows? No easy answer for this one, but fascinating to think about. Bev >
Yes and yes, Bev. I think watching a great lesson offers us much; we can go back and emulate what we experienced. I love learning from other teachers. Doing lesson study takes us to a different, I would venture to say, deeper personal place. It causes us to internalize ideas about our teaching and about how students learn. It makes us test out our assumptions and in the process we learn we may be making more assumptions than we realized. It causes us to reflect deeply on our own practice and on learning in general. _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list [email protected] http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
