Step 1 - Research Topic Selection (2-3 hours)
What is it?
Before starting Lesson Study, teachers form a Lesson Study group composed of those who teach the same subject or grades. One of them will deliver the research lesson on behalf of the group. Involvement of the school leaders and senior teachers and collaboration with them are highly desirable. It would be much better if the group can invite external resource persons such as the Sector Education Inspector (SEI) and development partners. Then, the group decides on a problem to be addressed and the research lesson topic. The topic should be chosen from challenging ones for learners to learn and/or for teachers to teach. It is also possible to give some quizzes and identify learners’ weak areas. Members agree on the research topic by discussing what pedagogical problem to solve, and what to achieve through Lesson Study. They should focus on Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), a combination of what teachers know about teaching (pedagogical knowledge), and what they know about their subject (subject knowledge). Subsequently, they brainstorm as many practical measures and strategies as possible to solve the identified problem.