Lesson Study! British School of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!
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Here at BSKL we strive to create and sustain a culture of sharing, reflecting and continuous improvement brought about by teachers taking risks and learning from successes and failures in equal measure. Indeed, our school motto is ‘Through teaching we learn’. !
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We are fortunate to have a teaching staff who are open to collaboration and learning from each other, thus allowing for the continuous improvement in our teaching practice, and an ability to often rely on our teachers’ own expertise, rather than external CPD. We are also very lucky to have a number of staff who are eager to lead new initiatives within the school, and so when one such member of staff, Nikhil Dhand, proposed to lead the launch of a lesson study programme, we were extremely keen.!
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It was perhaps our enthusiasm to launch the programme to all staff that meant we didn’t fully consider the time frame prior to implementation. As a result, there simply wasn’t enough meaningful curriculum time left in the term for all teaching staff to experience a full cycle of the programme. However, a small proportion of staff were able to complete full cycles, which in hindsight, has allowed us to further refine the procedures around the lesson study to improve it for this year when we re-launch again to all staff. !
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Our lesson study cycle was structured as follows:!
! CPD Update
Issue 9 6 November 2015
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