SEAMEO RECSAM initiated Science Lesson Study Project in 2011 with five selected primary and secondary schools in Penang. The academic staff of SEAMEO RECSAM worked collaboratively with a group of lecturers from Penang Teachers’ Education Institute in carrying out the project. The aim was to introduce the lesson study process to science teachers in order to showcase the process as a strategy for enhancing teacher professional development. The project also examined how science teachers could work collaboratively and learn from their own teaching to improve classroom instructional practice in teaching science, and thereby helping their students to learn science better.

This report intends to share experiences of the research team in implementing this research study, describing how teachers’ engagement in lesson study affect their instructional practice, knowledge of science and motivating better student learning, and what conditions support the successful adoption as well as adaption of lesson study process in schools. The insights gained and lessons learnt from the project are being highlighted for the benefits of teachers’ professional development.