The History of Lesson Study in SMK Raja Puan Muda Tg Fauziah

Lesson Study (LS) has been introduced in SMK Raja Puan Muda Tg Fauziah since 2011 under one of NKRA programs. The school is one of the five schools selected in Perlis to carry out the program as the school categorized under band 6 based on the SPM result of 2010. The subject chosen is English Language and the program is to be carried out by English Language Panel. In making it into the practice, the school set up the team of PLC which led by MohdAsri bin Mat Isa and 6 other teachers. 

The practice has been done with Pn Mona Liana binti Markon being the first teacher to teach. The procedure was, the teacher to set up the learning goals and design the lesson plan, then she gave a briefing on how the lesson to be carried out in classroom to the whole team in the first meeting attended by all but without the ‘knowledgeable others (PnRahimahbt Ibrahim)’. In the meeting, all members gave ideas and the teacher amended the lesson plan accordingly. The lesson was then being implemented in class room the week after, without any more meeting. The teaching and observation for this time was done in the present of the ‘knowledgeable others’, and the meeting was carried out right after the lesson. The leader of the team reported to the BPG portal of the 1^stcycle process. 

The process of asking the teacher to set up the goals and to design the lesson plan in advance was, to suit to the time constrain among the team members and to suit to the teachers’ scheme of work. The rational of not having ‘knowledgeable others’ in the design of the lesson plan was because of the mobility of the person to come to our school as she attaches at SMK Tengku Suleiman which is 30 km away from the subject school. 

After the first cycle, the lesson study has become the phenomena in the school, where the principal kept on mentioning it in the teachers’ meeting and how he hoped the readiness of the teachers to learn from the others and to open their classroom to the others to learn in future. The process of implementing the LS was then carried out by other teachers in the school by following that method. The leader of the team was also carried out the process by using the same procedure carried out by Pn Mona Liana earlier. The moved by the team leader to teach a cycle of LS has also encouraged the other junior teachers to open up their classroom for the other teachers.