Third grade teachers will work together with a team from USF to learn and develop a lesson using the Lesson Study format. Lesson study* is a professional development process to engage in to systematically examine their practice, with the goal of becoming more effective. This examination centers on teachers working collaboratively on a small number of "study lessons". Working on these study lessons involves planning, teaching, observing, and critiquing the lessons. To provide focus and direction to this work, the teachers select an overarching goal and related research question that they want to explore. This research question then serves to guide their work on all the study lessons.
- Teacher: Maria Cuffaro