Lesson Study

We work with public schools to promote the formative practice of Lesson Study, a teacher training methodology developed in Japan with a focus on mathematics and now present in several countries around the world.

Lesson Study involves creating collaborative planning groups among teachers from the same school, culminating in the development of a sequence of lessons and the implementation of a “public lesson”. During the public lesson, colleagues and experts observe the implementation of one of the lessons from the created sequence.

Immediately after the lesson, the group of teachers and experts gather to discuss how students interacted with the planned activities during the lesson. The focus of the discussion is the intersection between the planning and the real classroom context where the plan was implemented. In this perspective, the lesson plan and student work serve as a foundation of real information that grounds the discussion on how to teach and learn a specific mathematical topic.

In 2019, we supported teachers from the EMEF Maria José Ferraz Schoenacker and EMEF Professor Tibério Justo da Silva in São Roque, São Paulo, in conducting cycles of Lesson Study. The project emerged from a partnership with the Lemann Foundation, which facilitated the participation of Professor and Researcher Dr. Akihiko Takahashi, author of Japanese textbooks and an expert in Lesson Study.