Japanese Lesson Study

Friday, July 13

We watched a video in which Catherine Lewis described goal setting in the lesson-study process.

We discussed goals:

• Students focusing for more than 30 seconds
• Respect for each other's ideas
• Willingness to help
• Persistence
• Willingness to conjecture
• Independent thinkers
• Communicate, reason, connect, change representations
• Think mathematically

And discussed what characteristics we want in a topic:

A topic which will make the students think about:

• Patterns and relationships
• Abstraction/justification
• Communication

Tom presented some of his research on Japanese and American calculus students.

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