In 'Lesson Study' Sessions, Teachers Polish Their Craft
It's time for a "lesson study" meeting in Marie Coffaro's second-floor classroom here at Paterson School 2. Yet it looks more like fun-and-games time.
The school's mathematics facilitator, two tutors, Ms. Coffaro, and another classroom teacher are sitting around a child-size table, rolling a die, laughing, and filling in empty circles with little quarter-circles of colored construction paper.
There's a purpose behind the merriment, of course. These educators are piloting a math game they hope will spur students to think about how fractions combine to make a whole. In the 80 minutes they spend "playing," members of the group are trying to predict how Ms. Coffaro's students with learning disabilities will respond to this game when they play it in class a...
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