Guidelines for contributing the research lesson videos

From APEC HRDWG Wiki

The Knowledgebank Wiki, Classroom videos from Lesson Study site was designed for classroom teachers, school administrators, professional development providers, and education researchers to:

1. learn about lesson study and how to implement lesson study for improving mathematics teaching and learning; and
2. contribute so that others may benefit from teachers’ experience with lesson study.

Please consider sharing your lesson study work for our colleagues in APEC economies. The following are guidelines for contributing the videos.  This effort supports APEC Education Network's project titled Classroom Innovations through Lesson Study.This project provides guidance to in using Lesson Study to improve teaching and learning in mathematics education.

What kind of classroom video should I chose?

Please use the criteria in the chapter document “Key Considerations in Analyzing and Revising Lessons” [in the Lesson Study Guide] and find if the classroom instruction is appropriate for others to learn how a criteria looks like in action. It might be a good idea to chose a classroom video that exemplifies a few of the criteria from the list. It is not necessarily for one classroom video to address all the criteria from the list.
Guidelines for preparing the video

• The video should include the entire class period from the beginning to end.
• The video should include not only what teacher does but also how students respond to the lesson. It is expected to include not only teacher-students interactions but also student-student interactions.
• Please pay extra attention to capture the teacher’s voice and student voices. If the sound is not clear, please provide subtitles so that people can understand what is discussed in the class.

Guidelines for contributing the video to the Knowledgebank Wiki

• Please prepare the full class video. The video should be converted into MPEG4. This video files should include all the events from the beginning to the end of the lesson without any cut.
• Please prepare a short paragraph to explain the lesson. This includes the grade and the topic of the lesson. You may include the school name and the teacher’s name. It might be a good idea to mention some highlights from the lesson.
• Please select several short segments, less than 5 minutes each, from the full class video so that people can see key moments from the lesson. These segments should be able to show the followings;

1. What problems/tasks students worked and how the problem/task were presented to the students.
2. How the students received/worked on the problem/task.
3. What students learned from the class.

• Please write a short paragraph to describe the highlights of each short segment. It might be a good idea to include what criteria from the “Key Considerations in Analyzing and Revising Lessons” can be discussed by watching the segment.
• Please prepare the short segment video. Each video segment should be converted into MPEG4. You can provide the start and end times for each segment instead of actually preparing each short video clip if you do not have the proper equipment to do so.
• Please prepare the summary of the post lesson discussion and save it as text or RTF.

Guidelines for sending the files

• Please send all the following files.

1. Lesson plan for the research lesson
2. Full lesson video file (MPEG4)
3. All the short segment video files (MPEG4)
4. The short description of the lesson and the short description of each video segment (Word/text)
5. Any other materials related to the lesson. For example worksheets and handouts.
6. Summary of the post lesson discussion (Word/text)

• Examples of effective video can be found at http://hrd.apecwiki.org/index.php/Lesson_Study_Videos
• Please contact Akihiko Takahashi, DePaul University (United States) when all the files are ready.