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LIFT Project – Lesson Study in Future Teacher Education

LIFT project

LIFT project helps us to apply successful in-service professional development knowledge to pre-service education. Using lesson study (LS) as an approach in initial teacher education (ITE), the project aims to empower pre-service teachers (PSTs) with skills and capabilities as preparation for their future teaching career. While initiatives have been made to incorporate LS into the teacher education curriculum, its implementation in Europe has been somewhat sporadic and uncoordinated. The LIFT project unites European higher education institutions using LS with a shared aim of establishing a common model to further support LS use in Europe by providing a blueprint, various resources and instruments.

Implementation

The LIFT blueprint is used throughout the project to support pre-service teachers´ development. The main project activities are the following:

  • Create a Lesson Study programme for pre-service teachers and teacher educators to sample characteristics of good LS-ITE practices;
  • Develop the LIFT blueprint;
  • Train teacher educators to pilot the blueprint in partners’ initial teacher education programmes;
  • Create a shared digital platform for supporting materials, programme-related data, the various outputs and for network development by partners and prospective users;
  • Outreach to the (inter)national Lesson Study community.

Main project results

The LIFT project consists of 5 work packages (WP) leading to:

  • monitoring and management of the project (WP1);
  • an immersion programme (WP2);
  • a LIFT blueprint with guidelines and resources to guide PSTs and TEs through Lesson Study in English and local languages (WP3);
  • training for teacher educators to initiate Lesson Study and pilot the blueprint in each partner’s local initial teacher education context (WP4);
  • this project website, different social media channels, publication and outreach to the wider practitioner and academic communities (WP5).

LIFT project is an ERASMUS+ project (1 September 2024 – 31 August 2027), a cooperation partnerships in higher education. Erasmus+ is an EU programme for education, training, youth and sport.

Read more about the LIFT project and its work packages here:

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