A Literature Review on Lesson Study and Its Implications for Teacher Professional Development

This study aims to discuss the Lesson Study model and its implications for teachers’ professional development. This study analyses in detail how Lesson Study, which is regarded as a visionary professional development model, is implemented. Based on the studies conducted on the implementation of Lesson Study both in Turkey and in the world, it was found out that the model contributed to teachers’ professional development in important aspects such as fostering teacher collaboration, enabling teachers to be more student and learning focused, improving the content and the pedagogical content knowledge of teachers, and growing teachers as reflective practitioners. It is suggested that the model is implemented by pre-service and in-service teachers teaching at varying levels of education. This will help researchers not only to create a common understanding of how the model should be modified so that it can be better integrated into the Turkish culture but also to determine which aspects of it need to be preserved as they are or modified.