Application of the open-class approach to pre-service teacher training in Macao: a qualitative assessment

Language and Cultural Issues in the Teaching and Learning of WNA

“…For each accepted paper, a maximum of two co-authors were invited to participate in the Study Conference. A volume of proceedings was edited by Xu Hua Sun, Berinderjeet Kaur and Jarmila Novotná (Sun et al 2015).…”

“…In China, this choice is common in big cities but not in rural areas. Where there are specialist mathematics teachers, it is common to form a Mathematics Teaching Research Group in the school, for in-service development according to the model of 'open classes', called in Chinese guānmó kè (观摩课), which means 'to observe for imitating a lesson' and has some similarities to the Japanese lesson study (Sun et al 2015).…”

Cultural transposition of Chinese lesson study to Italy

“…Chen and Yang (2013) reconstructed the social-cultural history of CLS, which dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century. The Mathematics Teachers Research Group in schools was organized by means of an open-class approach (Sun et al , 2015). An open class is taught by one teacher and open for observation to a group of teachers and administrators from inside a school or outside a school.…”

“…Sun et al (2015) stated that there are several kinds of CLS and distinguished them between routine lesson studies for schools and lesson studies for outside audience.…”

“…They chose to explore the CLS as they were interested in a content-focused and strategy-oriented model. Moreover, CLS provides a practical and economical research model in terms of organization, budgeting and scheduling (Sun et al , 2015).…”