Texas Lesson Study

Texas Lesson Study is inquiry-based, job-embedded professional development that allows teachers to work collaboratively to develop, teach, and assess research-based lessons. In Professional Learning Communities, teachers collaborate to identify a concept that students have difficulty understanding. Teachers then examine educational research to determine best practices and spend weeks skillfully designing an exemplar lesson. After the lesson is taught to students, teacher teams reflect, refine, reteach and plan for intervention and enrichment, to ensure mastery by every student.

The purpose of Lesson Study is to help teachers improve their effectiveness, share best practices with other teachers, improve student outcomes, and provide a platform to demonstrate mastery within the teaching profession.

What is Texas Lesson Study?
Texas Lesson Study (TXLS) is inquiry-based, systematic professional development.
Our program is
- job-embedded
- collaborative
- closely connected to classroom practice
- focused on student learning
- directed toward the teaching of specific curriculum content, and
- complementary to Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
Benefits
- Improves teacher effectiveness through self-reﬂective, outcome-oriented, research-based learning communities
- Increases self-mastery and public perception of the teaching profession by producing high-quality research-based documents (similar to the medical and legal professions)
- Builds a massive repository of master lessons that have been delivered, dissected, and reﬁned by teachers
This leads to improved student outcomes.
The TXLS Cycle
- TXLS teams meet weekly to progress through the TXLS cycle.
- Training and meeting schedules are tailored to ﬁt the campus needs.
- ESCs, in collaboration with TEA, support districts and campuses with implementation.

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