The study aims to develop students’ higher cognitive skills e.g. analysis, synthesis and assessment and to increase their academic successes by reflecting their cognitive skills in psychomotor skills in practice with the help of lesson study. Therefore, the aim of the study is to increase students’ English as a foreign language learning level. Action research was used in the study. “English Achievement Test” and “Semi-Structured Interview Form” developed by the researchers were used as data collection instruments. English achievement test was used as pre-test and post-test to define students’ English language levels, and semi-structured interview form was used to determine teachers’ views about lesson study practice. According to research result, lesson study has increased students’ learning levels significantly. Moreover, teachers stated that lesson study was highly beneficial and affected their professional development in a positive way. It was stated by teachers in the study that lesson study had the teachers a chance to observe and assess their teaching qualities and so, it made the students’ learning levels increase significantly. Furthermore, all of the teachers agreed that lesson study as an in-service training model could be an approach used for both other lessons and nationally.

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ABSTRACT:The goal of this study was to test for the effects of creative thinking activities and information technology assisted creative thinking activities on learners' creative thinking skills and academic achievement in geography lesson. The students were all 11th grade students in Zühtü Özkardaşlar (Balıkesir) Anatolian High School (n=40) enrolled the academic year 2013-2014. Nonequivalent pretest -posttest control grouped quasi-experimental design was executed with two samples of students: Control group and Experiment group. Data was collected by Torrance Creative Thinking Test Verbal B Form and achievement test. The results of the first tests and the final tests were compared with the help of the statistical technique of t test. The results show that; the creative thinking skills and academic achievement of the experiment group which information technology assisted creative thinking activities have been applied and the control group which creative thinking activities have been applied increased. In addition, the creative thinking skills and academic achievement of the control group increased more than the experiment group.

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