Math Coordinators Summary

Wednesday, July 3, 2002

1. Attended the following morning sessions of the Joint US/Japan Seminar
   1. Catherine Lewis - Development of Lesson Study in the United States
   2. Bill Jackson - The New Jersey Experience: A Case Study of Transforming teacher's beliefs and practice.
2. The afternoon sessions:
   1. Yoshinori Shimizu, Takashi Nakamura - Sharing New Approaches in Mathematics Teaching with the Teacher's from outside the School: The Role of Lesson Study at "Fuzoku" Schools.
   2. Keiko Hono, Keiichi Shigematsu - Transformation of teachers at the elementary and middle schools through an in-service education program.
3. Returned to debrief and discuss what we had observed.
   (results need to be added here.)

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