A joke from MIT Professor Bill Freeman to Charles Leiserson, the author of Introduction to Algorithms on what the most important quality of being a researcher is. A rabbit is caught by a wolf. The wolf is about to eat the rabbit, but the rabbit protests, “I’m only a few weeks away from defending my Ph.D. [...]
Lesson Study originated in Japan 140 years ago. It is the main professional development activity of their teachers. Since the release of J.W. Stigler’s The Teaching Gap which compares math teaching practices in Japan and Germany with those in the United States, many countries have adapted this educational activity for their teachers. The book Lesson Study Research and Practice in [...]
Teachers don’t merely deliver the curriculum. They develop, define it, and reinterpret it too. It is what teachers think, what teachers believe and what teachers do at the level of the classroom that ultimately shapes the kind of learning that young people get. (Hargreaves 1994, p. ix) Hargreaves, A. (1994). Changing teachers, changing times: teachers’ work and [...]