Investigating Lesson Study as a possibility for improving teaching practice at Karama Primary School.
Research questions:
1) What is Lesson Study? What are the different ways in which Lesson Study was organised in Japan and western world schools, including Australia, and how did participating teachers perceive lesson study as a professional development process?

2) As teachers engaged in Lesson Study, what are they learning and how are they learning? And how did engaging in Lesson Study affect teachers’ instruction?

3) What tools are suggested in the literature for teachers to evaluate their growth in pedagogy as a result of Lesson Study cycles?
All questions have a very specific relevant to local context (school in the Northern Territory of Australia – so when discussing different papers, the discussion will need to be done in conjunction with local context. What is similar, what is different, what can be useful and what awareness is required)
Please follow essay outline suggestions and annotated bibliography – researcher may use other pertinent literature to answer the resarch questions in the first part of the literature review: 4,000 words; 2nd part – 2,000 words