Makoto Yoshida

Associate, Lesson Study

Makoto is recognized as the foremost authority on Lesson Study in the U.S. and is one of the founders and the president of Global Education Resources. He was born in Hiroshima, Japan and came to the U.S. to study at Lewis and Clark College, where he received his B.A. in education and psychology. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in education from the University of Chicago. His doctoral dissertation research focused on lesson study in Japan, and part of his dissertation served as the basis of a chapter in The Teaching Gap (Stigler and Heibert, 1999), in addition to being featured in many other publications.