Becoming a more adaptive teacher through collaborating in Lesson Study? Examining the influence of Lesson Study on teachers’ adaptive teaching practices in mainstream secondary education

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 88, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Schipper, Tijmen M ^a,b   van der Lans, Rikkert M ^d   de Vries, Siebrich ^b   Goei, Sui Lin ^a,c   van Veen, Klaas ^b  

^a WINDESHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptive teaching; Classroom observation; Lesson study; Stimulated recall interviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074681498     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2019.102961     Document Type: Article

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