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The implementation of Lesson Study (LS) varies considerably across countries and institutions and is still in a phase of adaptation and experimentation.
This article explains the result and the process of a school-based initiative endeavor to implement LS at a suburban elementary in Padang, Indonesia.
The study involved 13 teachers, the principal and 6 classes of students.
The data were collected through observation and interview.
They were classified on the basis of three noticeable emerging themes - teacher collaboration, scaffolding, and reflection.
The data were analyzed qualitatively.
The results of data analysis reveal a promising improvement in these aspects.
Implementing school- support LS increased by weaving the concept into practice helped teachers develop their professionalism gradually.
It was obvious that the teachers felt more at ease to work collaboratively when they designed the lesson.
This also affected their design which showed more meaningful learning activities and challenging tasks.
Then, the teachers improved the way they scaffolded the pupils.
The content of reflection and the way the results of reflection were conveyed became better.
The principal’s support and the teachers’ strong willingness to elevate their quality apparently took an important role. In spite of that, there were some challenges in carrying out collaboration, providing appropriate scaffolding, and doing reflection.
Changing the teachers’ common practice to LS apparently needs some adjustment and time.
Published: 2020
Updated: Mar. 16, 2021
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In the literature reflection in teacher training is conceptualised in multiple ways, making it difficult to determine what types of contexts facilitate the activity of joint reflection.
The present study aims to shed light on this debate, identifying the strategies of educational assistance given by tutors to a group of students during the process of reflection.
To this end, the authors analyse the interactive dynamics and educational assistance in two cases of joint reflection between tutors and students.
Different phases in the process of reflection were identified, as were different specific types of assistance to address joint reflection. In both cases, the assistance of the tutor was found to be necessary in collective scaffolding for the establishment of relationships between situational and academic representations, even though the data suggest a progressive increase in the students’ control of the task.
Published: 2019
Updated: Jan. 16, 2020
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In this study, the authors examined their efforts to teach beginning teachers’ formative assessment practices, specifically to elicit and interpret students’ mathematical thinking. This study surfaced a number of important ideas about scaffolding students’ learning of practice in the context of a commonly used teacher education assignment. The findings reveal that each scaffold examined in this paper appeared to support and shape student performance. Furthermore, fixed scaffolds designed in advance and scaffolds crafted in the moment based on the unfolding circumstances were both useful in supporting and shaping student practice.
Published: 2013
Updated: Sep. 30, 2014
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The authors designed and examined progressively increasing scaffolds that integrated multiple scaffolding functions to facilitate three technology-based lesson design projects. The preservice teachers initially demonstrated superficial analysis, convergent ideation, and little evaluation when only limited procedural, conceptual, metacognitive, and strategic scaffolds were provided. Increased procedural and conceptual scaffolds in the second project improved the preservice teachers’ analytic and generative reasoning skills, as they identified multiple challenges, technology tools, and lesson ideas to integrate technology.
Published: 2013
Updated: May. 26, 2014
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The authors have implemented a structured approach to developing the habits of critical reflection. The authors' attempts to incorporate into these pre-service teachers' learning the ‘practice’ part of reflective practice have included the development of different kinds of practical and applied tasks. In turn, their attempts to incorporate the ‘reflective’ part of reflective practice have involved the embedding in assessment activities of different scaffolds for metacognitive reflection.
Published: 2012
Updated: Aug. 26, 2013
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The authors developed a professional development program (PDP) focusing on scaffolding. The PDP was based on a model of contingent teaching consisting of three steps: diagnostic strategies, checking the diagnosis and intervention strategies. The authors analyzed the development of four social studies teachers’ scaffolding knowledge, use of scaffolding in practice and reflections on practice.
Published: 2012
Updated: Nov. 28, 2012
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This article describes the development of a three-level model of reflection for preservice students. The scaffold levels include technical reflection involving a critique of lesson development and delivery, a deliberative level involving interactive journal writing and video-based analysis, and critical reflection involving topical discussion during seminars.
Published: 2012
Updated: Sep. 27, 2012
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In this article, the authors describe how pre-service teachers were scaffolded to engage in effective observations in their field experiences to reflectively build a foundation for learning about teaching. Data were collected from 27 pre-service teachers during two semester-long language arts methods courses where students used a blended approach for their observations.
Published: 2011
Updated: Sep. 27, 2012
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The purpose of this article is threefold. 1. To present a conceptual understanding of regulation of motivation highlighting three core facets. 2. To review prior empirical work documenting the regulation of motivation across contexts. and 3. To discuss social influences on the development of regulation of motivation that include modeling, scaffolding, direct instruction, and sociocultural processes. The article concludes that it is argued that motivational regulation is a critical aspect of self-regulated learning that must be studied more thoroughly.
Published: 2011
Updated: Oct. 10, 2011
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In this study, the authors sought to understand (a) how their six preservice teachers, who paired together in a pre-student teaching placement, experience and perceive the value of collaboration with a peer and cooperating teacher and (b) what facilitates or inhibits collaboration. Results from two successful and one less than successful placement indicate that mutuality, scaffolding, and the appropriation of skills and resources facilitate productive collaboration and promote professional learning. Recommendations are provided to guide the implementation or refinement of partner placements.
Published: 2010
Updated: Nov. 14, 2010