1st Edition
Lesson Study A Japanese Approach To Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Biography
Authored by Fernandez, Clea; Yoshida, Makoto
"With the current interest in Japanese lesson study as a form of professional development for mathematics teachers, this book is an important contribution to the literature....This book, written by two authors who have such an intimately deep understanding of the process and its details, is then essential reading for all mathematics educators who are engaged in the implementation of Japanese lesson study outside of Japan."
—Journal of Research in Mathematics"Of interest to the reader/educator is how lesson study is then organized for each school, when Japanese teachers involved in the lesson study have their meetings, and what kind of financial support they might receive from outside sources. This book is derived from Yoshida's dortoral dissertation, but this is one disseration whose observations won't gather dust on a bookself!"
—MAA Online"The description is rich with ideas for better ways of approaching problem-based learning. This book should be on the shelves of all elementary education professors and elementary supervisors of any content."
—Teaching Children Mathematics"Clea Fernandez and Makoto Yoshida have made major contributions to our understanding of lesson study, and this book clearly is one of the most important of these. They tell the story of lesson study at one school in a way that is accurate and true to Japanese practice, yet accessible and comprehensible to U.S. audiences....This book presents the details of Japanese lesson study, and these details can take your breath away....Those of us interested in lesson study, and in improving teaching and learning in U.S. schools, should be grateful for the care and clarity with which Clea Fernandez and Makoto Yoshida have presented the substance of Japanese lesson study. There is much learned in these pages."
—James. W. Stigler
University of California at Los Angeles, From the Foreword
