| Title: |
Enhancing Life Science Learning in Middle School: Unleashing the Power of Japanese Lesson Study |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Chris L. Craney; Thomas Lau; James Rust; Robert M. de Groot; William T. Nelson; Adriana Ghomeshi; Alicia Ogas |
| Source: |
American Biology Teacher. 2024 86(6):345-351. |
| Availability: |
University of California Press. 2000 Center Street Suite 303, Berkeley, CA 94704. Tel: 510-643-7154; Fax: 510-642-9917; e-mail: customerservice@ucpressjournals.com; Web site: http://www.ucpressjournals.com/journal.php?j=abt |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
7 |
| Publication Date: |
2024 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Research |
| Education Level: |
Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 7 |
| Descriptors: |
Teacher Improvement; Teacher Collaboration; Faculty Development; Communities of Practice; Grade 7; Biological Sciences; Science Achievement; Disadvantaged Youth; Minority Group Students; Hands on Science; Science Instruction; Student Improvement; Middle School Teachers; Middle School Students |
| Geographic Terms: |
California (Los Angeles) |
| DOI: |
10.1525/abt.2024.86.6.345 |
| ISSN: |
0002-7685; 1938-4211 |
| Abstract: |
A student's middle school science experience strongly impacts their future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics interest. The Japanese lesson study (JLS) model strengthens the student's experience through a research-based, collaborative, multistep, teaching-centered process focused on transforming local instructional practices. The JLS model has seen very limited application to middle school life science classrooms. The six-year-long implementation of JLS to core standards in the seventh-grade life science curriculum at a Los Angeles area school serving a historically underrepresented population found large, gender-independent increases in student mastery of key science standards, increased teacher collaboration in the areas of lesson development and data analysis, and school-site reform yielding district and statewide recognition. |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Entry Date: |
2024 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ1437820 |
| Database: |
ERIC |