07 summer - heather, anne
reflection and refraction
In the summer of 2007 after our lesson study groups split and realigned,
Anne and Heather began creating a new lesson on optics. At this point I
think we were still more focused on collaborative lesson planning rather than
lesson study. We spent much of our time discussing cool activities we could
do surrounding the very broad topic we had chosen. With Nicole’s
prompting we decided to focus our lesson study on refraction. In spite of
this, we always worked from the unit as a whole and had trouble thinking
about the boundaries of our lesson study. Our lesson plan consists of a list
of objectives, a correlating set of state standards (New York), a list of
activities, a list of assessments, and a handout for the culminating project.
All of these items were created from the unit as a whole and not the lesson
we needed to examine. At this time we certainly thought we were doing
lesson study, but we never discussed the details of the script of the lesson
and what it entailed. We felt we needed to leave the lesson open to meet
the needs of our different classroom cultures and teaching styles.
documents and resources
(c) 2009 ronnster/oharanator productions
