HOLY TRINITY TEACHERS’ COLLEGE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT USES LESSON STUDY APPROACH Ula Waugla The National Policy which is the intended curriculum must become implemented curriculum by teachers and it will become achieved curriculum by students. The curriculum is ambitious and there are still challenges for quality learning. I observed a model Science Lesson in Naruto University -Japan where Lesson Study was demonstrated. I said to myself, “That’s it. This must be the reason I came on this JICA training.” I changed the way I used to teach Math Methods many years back and started planning using Lesson Study Approach (LES). A full lesson study approach started taking place in Semester 2 for the first Year students since 2014. (See the sample teaching plan below) The students are put into groups of four. The group is called lesson study group. The group study plans lessons together, presenting the lesson and reflecting the lesson and redo the planning for learning at equal attention for each part of the lesson. That is, the degree of attention given in constructing of lesson plan should be about the same as teaching and evaluating. It is in the evaluating for both lesson planning and teaching that the learner learns more about that lesson. We continue lesson Study Approach in all the semesters for all year levels at the college.
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Lesson Topic/lesson titles
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Measuring diameter and Circumference.
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Measuring diameter and Circumference.
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Circumference Formula
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Pi = π
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Big Diameter and Circumferences
Lesson Activity Think about how to measure diameter and circumference. Each student measure 10 diameters and circumferences of various sizes. Provide a diagram (draw, take a photo, or photocopy from a text book or from an internet.) of the correct way of measuring diameter and circumference. Think about how derive the formula for circumference by looking at the measured diameter and circumference. Noting the points on Pi = π.
Material 10 cylinders for each students. Paper tape measure. ruler Own choice of materials
Data on diameter and circumference Power point
1. Copy noted on diameter of earth. Own choice of 2. Find a picture of the instrument material. that measures big diameter. Provide a diagram (draw, take a photo, or photocopy from a text book or from an internet.)
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