Teachers' Readiness in Implementing Lesson Study

Abstract

Improving educational quality by improving learning quality might be afforded through several initiatives and one of the initiatives is benefitting lesson study. With regards to the statement, the present study would like to describe the junior high school teachers' readiness in implementing the lesson study in order to improve the learning quality of Mathematics. The study was a qualitative research that involved phenomenological approach. The data were gathered using open questionnaire and involving 12 junior high school teachers of Mathematics from the low, the moderate, and the high category in both the private and the public schools as the participants. The results of the study show that the teachers' understanding toward the lesson study has still been partial. Most of the Mathematics teachers have theoretically understood the activities of the lesson study and some of these teachers have implemented the activities of the lesson study. Several obstacles that appear within the implementation of the lesson study are related to the teachers, the participants, and the availability of the facilities. Despite these obstacles, basically the teachers seek to implement the lesson study as one of the efforts for improving the learning quality and the learning results of Mathematics in the school Start your abstract here...