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Module Specifications
Archived Version 2020 - 2021
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Description This module introduces students to the practice of lesson study, a powerful professional development tool for the analysis and improvement of the teaching and learning of mathematics. The background of lesson study and its structure will be introduced to the students and they will be invited to join in a process of identifying and interrogating topics, themes or issues in the teaching and learning of mathematics. They will be supported in researching the relevant mathematical ideas and recommended pedagogical approaches and collaborate in designing and refining a lesson. This lesson will be taught and analysed using lesson study protocols with a view to gaining insights into the pedagogy of mathematics. Students will draw upon and enhance their understandings of mathematical knowledge for teaching, they will put to use analysis frameworks in this situated and sociocultural context. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Articulate and critically evaluate the process of lesson study. 2. Identify issues, dilemmas or questions relevant to the pedagogy of mathematics 3. Collaborate in identifying and interrogating the mathematics underlying their chosen issue or question, and choosing and exploring relevant mathematical problems and classroom activities. 4. Collaborate in planning, developing and teaching a research lesson, drawing on their research into mathematics pedagogy and making use of lesson study conventions 5. Select appropriate frameworks for the analysis of classroom episodes and select episodes relevant to the topic under analysis 6. Display analysis and insight in connecting lesson events to research questions and drawing inferences relevant to the research focus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Learning Activities Students will engage the stages of the lesson study processInvestigation Students will gather evidence and consider pupil’s characteristics, consider long term goals for student learning and development. They will inform themselves on the chosen area of mathematics, to include key mathematical ideas, curriculum objectives, and learning trajectories. Planning Students will select or develop research lesson, completing tasks in order to anticipate student responses, misconceptions and solutions. They will develop a lesson plan, including goals for student learning and development, anticipated student thinking, data collection points.They will state a rationale for lesson design, including connections to long-term goals Research Lesson Students will teach the research lesson in a participating school. Group members will observe and collect data during the live research lesson Reflection Students will share and discuss data from research lesson in a post-lesson colloquium Group members and lecturers will draw out implications for lesson redesign, for teaching and learning more broadly, and for understanding of students and subject matter. (Adapted from Lewis, Perry and Hurd, 2009) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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