How do educators learn during lesson study, and what key activities lead to
improvement of instruction? In interviews, I asked Japanese educators what
they had learned from lesson study, what constitutes a successful research
lesson (kenkyuu jugyou) and research lesson discussion (kyougikai), and
how Japanese education would be different without research lessons. Their
answers provide an initial guiding framework for US educators who want to
think about the elements that make lesson study effective - at least in Japan.
In the view of Japanese teachers, effective lesson study provides opportunities
to do the following.