Lesson Study Cycle

Schedule a lesson-study plan, teaching, observation, reflection, and revision cycle.

Description

Lesson-study planning allocates separate periods to planning, teaching, observing, reflection and revision.

Lesson-study planning allocates separate periods to planning, teaching, observing, reflection and revision. Sequential phase starts expose the total cycle span.^[1]

Schedule a lesson-study plan, teaching, observation, reflection, and revision cycle.

When to use Lesson Study Cycle

Use this tool to schedule a lesson-study plan, teaching, observation, reflection, and revision cycle.

Prepare the lesson timeline, roster, observations or assessment labels requested. Use consistent units and exact identifiers, then choose comparison criteria appropriate to the activity.

How to use Lesson Study Cycle and understand its results

Prepare the lesson timeline, roster, observations or assessment labels requested. Use consistent units and exact identifiers, then choose comparison criteria appropriate to the activity.
Enter cycleStartDay, planDays, teachDays, observeDays, reflectDays, reviseDays using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read phaseNames, phaseStartDays, cycleEndDay. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
cycleStartDay	Cycle start day	number	Required
planDays	Plan days	number	Required
teachDays	Teach days	number	Required
observeDays	Observe days	number	Required
reflectDays	Reflect days	number	Required
reviseDays	Revise days	number	Required

Enter safe-integer start day and positive safe-integer durations. Return the five names, aligned cumulative starts and end day. The start day may be negative despite the generic error text referring to positive days.

phaseStart_i=startDay+ΣpriorDurations; end=startDay+ΣallDurations

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
phaseNames	Phase names	list of string
phaseStartDays	Phase start days	list of number
cycleEndDay	Cycle end day	number

json

{
  "input": {
    "cycleStartDay": 1,
    "planDays": 3,
    "teachDays": 1,
    "observeDays": 1,
    "reflectDays": 2,
    "reviseDays": 2
  },
  "output": {
    "phaseNames": [
      "plan",
      "teach",
      "observe",
      "reflect",
      "revise"
    ],
    "phaseStartDays": [
      1,
      4,
      5,
      6,
      8
    ],
    "cycleEndDay": 10
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

No holiday calendar or overlap is modeled. Observation is a distinct scheduled phase, and the tool does not evaluate lesson-study practice.

Numeric inputs must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Microteaching Feedback Timeline: Schedule a microteaching lesson, observation, feedback, and revision cycle. For a complementary task, use Spiral Review Intervals: Map successive curriculum revisits from caller-chosen spacing intervals.

References

Lesson Study Cycle — tool.io

Similar or alternative tools

Microteaching Feedback Timeline
Schedule a microteaching lesson, observation, feedback, and revision cycle.
Spiral Review Intervals
Map successive curriculum revisits from caller-chosen spacing intervals.