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Bridging the school placement gap with peer micro-teaching lesson study

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posted on 2016-04-13, 09:26 authored by Joanne Griffiths
Purpose: – An adapted version of lesson study (peer micro-teaching lesson study (PMLS)) was used in a one-year initial teacher education (ITE) programme for prospective secondary school teachers of geography, history, citizenship and social science in England. The purpose of this paper is to support student-teachers through an opportunity to share knowledge, skills and practice from their first teaching placements. Design/methodology/approach: – In cross-curricular groups (of three or four), the student-teachers co-designed lessons that focused on developing thinking skills when teaching advanced-level content. Two “research lessons” were designed following the use of an initial questionnaire. Feedback from student-teachers was sought through a post-PMLS questionnaire. Participants’ discussions were recorded between the two “research lessons” to capture references to subject knowledge (SK), placement experiences and exploratory talk. Findings: – Principal findings to emerge from the project were: cross-curricular PMLS helped to support student-teachers’ development between their two school environments. The collaborative process allowed them to build on their first school experiences by sharing and reflecting on their placements, learning from each other’s pedagogical practice and by improving SK both within and outside of their own specialism. Originality/value: – The work is the first known use of PMLS in ITE in the UK, demonstrating that it can be used as a bridge between the first and second school placements. It elaborates a cross-curricular collaborative vision for the use of modified forms of LS in the preparation of new teachers in programmes that are now largely school-led.

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Citation

International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2016, 5 (3), pp.227 - 238

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Education

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies

Publisher

Emerald Publishing

issn

2046-8253

Acceptance date

2016-04-11

Copyright date

2016

Available date

2016-11-25

Publisher version

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/IJLLS-11-2015-0035

Language

en

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