APEC - TSUKUBA International Conference (2006)

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At the third APEC Education Ministerial Meeting held on April 29-30, 2004 in Santiago, the ministers defined four priority areas for future network activities, one of which was “Stimulating Learning in Mathematics and Science”. Based on this priority, the project “A Collaborative Study on Innovations for Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Different Cultures among the APEC Member Economies” was approved by the APEC Member Economies in August 2005. The following thirteen economies have participated in this project: Australia, Chile, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, USA, and Vietnam. This conference is considered part of the APEC Education Network (EDNET) project Classroom Innovations Through Lesson Study. The conference Web site is http://www.criced.tsukuba.ac.jp/math/apec2006/. 

Contents 1 Aims of Project 2 Implementing Lesson Study in economies 3 Results in order to reach aims: Developing innovations by focusing on good practices 4 Traditional values 5 Lesson Study Videos

Aims of Project

1. To collaboratively develop innovations on teaching and learning Mathematics in different cultures of the APEC Member Economies

2.To develop collaborative framework involving mathematics education among the APEC Member Economies. The project focuses on the effective practices in school classroom produced by Lesson Study and ways of professional development through the Lesson Study in each Member Economies.

Implementing Lesson Study in economies

1. Experimenting Lesson Study
Specialists get started to use Lesson Study in each economy to exemplify The meaning of good practices. Specialists from thirteen economies engaged in the practice.

2. Sharing the results of Lesson Study by videos Specialists observed the local mathematics classes and observed classes conducted by a Japanese teacher. They also reported the results of each research Share the ways to describe good practices through videos.

3.Producing videos of Lesson Study for teacher education

Specialists have tried to expand the Lesson Study for in-service, teacher education by organizing Lesson Study workshop for local school teachers in Economies, such as Chile and Thailand. Through these activities, Lesson Study,Videos were produced as examples of good practices.

Results in order to reach aims: Developing innovations by focusing on good practices

Clarifying the meaning of good practices Specialists/project overseers tentatively propose the meanings of good practices in mathematics education with the following conditions.

•  They must be visible, recordable in the classroom and can be showed to other people
•  They may be known as good approaches in an economy
•  There is at least one teacher who is well known by that approach
•  They may be known as being useful to reform mathematics education in an economy
•  Many teachers may have their wish to do the same approach
• They may be known as being useful for teacher education (pre-service or In-service)

Traditional values

In order to collaboratively develop innovations on teaching and learning mathematics,this project focused on gathering good practices using videos from specialists in each economy and discussed ‘what is good’, ‘why it is good’ and ‘how the teacher can develop such a good practice.’ While we as specialists discussed these points through the videos, we have learned that how each good practice has been done on different cultural setting. With recognizing these differences as our mirrors, we could revalue our good practices from different perspectives. We also get the ideas and methods for developing innovations to be implemented in mathematics classrooms in APEC member economies.

Lesson Study Videos

Speaker	Economy	Title
Maitree Inprasitha	Thailand	Development of Effective Lesson Plan through Lesson Study Approach: a Thai Experience In Thai with English subtitles and lesson plan.
Tran Vui	Viet Nam	Research Lesson on the Property of the Three Medians in a Triangle I Vietnamese with English subtitles and lesson plan.
Hiroshi Tanaka	Thailand	The Game Using the Block (1st grade) At Khon Kaen University in Thailand. In Japanese with Thai translation and English subtitles.
Yoshikaza Yamamoto	Thailand	Device for Calculating(6th grade) At Khon Kaen University in Thailand. In Japanese with Thai translation and English subtitles.
Satoshi Natsusaka	Thailand	The Square Area (6th grade) At Srinakharin Wirot University in Thailand. In Japanese with Thai translation and English subtitles.
Takao Seiyama	Thailand	Difference of Numbers (1st grade) At Srinakharin Wirot University in Thailand. In Japanese with Thai translation and English subtitles.
Yasuhiro Hosomizu	Chile	How Many Marks are There? (6th grade) At Catholic University of Temuco in Chile. In Japanese with Spanish translation.
Takeshi Miyakawa	Japan	Exploring Japanese Mathematics Lessons: Prime and Composite Numbers In Japanese with English subtitles.
Soledad A. Ulep	Philippines	Developing the Meaning of a System of Linear Equations in Two Variables Video in English.