Teacher Professional Learning through Lesson Study in Virtual and Hybrid Environments

Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions

Rongjin Huang, Nina Helgevold, Jean Lang, Heng Jiang

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000931327
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Professional Development

Offering a rich, critical investigation of how technology can be used to strengthen and promote lesson study in both virtual and hybrid environments, this edited book presents insights into the numerous challenges as well as opportunities for supporting teachers' and teacher educators' professional learning in such a novel setting.

Providing an international perspective, research in this book highlights on the one hand the necessity of exploring how the known theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches for researching on lesson study and effective characteristics of conducting lesson study can be adapted to the new environments. On the other hand, further analysis reveals the benefits of using various advanced technologies in lesson study, the new practice of professional development of teachers and teacher educators, and also documents related issues of conducting lesson study in such complex contexts. The chapters focus on online cross-cultural lesson study; the key aspects of conducting online lesson study and the effectiveness of it. Features of facilitation and the development of facilitators for online lesson study are explored, alongside the ways in which online lesson study can help address various problems of practice such as implementing equitable teaching, facilitating student interaction in virtual environments, and migration to remote teaching in STEM.

This resourceful text provides needed support to both researchers and practitioners, from primary to higher education, with special attention to both teacher and student learning.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsements Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Foreword by Catherine C. Lewis
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Teacher professional learning through hybrid lesson study
• Section I Online and hybrid cross-cultural lesson study
• Section II Key aspects of effectively adapting online and hybrid lesson study
• Section III Effectiveness of online and hybrid lesson study
• Section IV Conclusion and afterword
• Index