Lesson Study: Contemporary Motivating Tool for Active and Reflective Learning Approach

Innovation of teaching approaches and motivation of students to become active and reflective learners had been at the core of education reform taking place in North Macedonia over the last 20 years. One key reform tool was the introduction of the Lesson Study. A lesson study is a collaborative approach towards developing and researching pedagogy. In attempting to implement said approach, teachers develop a deeper knowledge of both pedagogy and subject content knowledge. This leads to higher standards of educational achievement of students on all educational levels. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the utilizing of the Lesson Study approach in thirty primary schools in North Macedonia involved in the Erasmus Plus Project: Assessment for Learning: Setting and Using Success Criteria in Math and Science Lessons in Primary Education (2016-2019). Findings indicate that the Lesson Study approach is a useful way to deal with the reconstruction of the students’ role in the process of teaching and learning. Moreover, building students as active and reflective learners increase their preparedness to meet challenges of the complex social reality.