Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Dear Colleagues,
We look forward to spending our next two staff meetings (January 21
and February 18) focusing on professional development in Language
Arts instruction. We would like for these professional development
sessions to be springboards for learning from the most talented
educators out there: your fellow teachers. Therefore, we are excited
to try using the professional development model of Lesson Study.
Lesson study is a process by which teams of teachers collaboratively
plan, research, and study their lesson instruction as a way to
determine how students learn best. It is used frequently in Japan, and
also by some of our fellow schools in FCPS. It will give us an exciting
chance to get in to one anothers classrooms, and it will do so in a nonthreatening way by observing one anothers student learning, not one
anothers teaching.
Timeline for Franconias Lesson Study:
Staff Meeting Jan. 21
One day between Jan.
22-29