Applying micro – teaching and jugyou kenkyuu (lesson study) to enhance students’ teaching skills through the module of Geopraphy teaching methodology at high school

Abstract

This article provides some basic theoretical statements about micro-teaching and lesson study, and suggests how to  combine these methods to develop the teaching skills of students in a High School Geography Teaching Methodology module in a Department of Geography. After trailing this combination, the author analyzed data from the trial to assess the feasibility of applying these two methods to teacher training programmes