Book review in the latest issue of ELTCRJ: eltcrj.com/wp-content/u... "(The) book ... sheds light on the power of [Exploratory Action Research] ... As all teachers highlighted ..., we need to have a closer look at our classrooms to find the real issues instead of relying on our assumption."
Mentoring large groups of teacher-researchers - MenTRnet blog post by Ravi Chakrakodi - mentrnet.net/mentoring-la...
Mentor Development for Exploratory Action Research - This new University of Warwick webpage - warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/r... - both showcases some of the main publications and initiatives in this area over the last few years and provides practical support for mentors or prospective mentors.
Vanita Chopra and Sidney Martin reflect in this feature on the recent Teachers Research! Online 2025 conference: mentrnet.net/teachers-res.... Records of previous conferences are here: resig.weebly.com/teachers-res...
Challenges in Mentoring Teacher-Research, and How to Overcome Them' - slides and handouts for the workshop Ana Garcia-Stone and I gave at the IATEFL 2025 conference in Edinburgh: warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmit...
Teachers research (too) and are doing it for themselves (with the help of some great mentors)!
This weekend (29–30 March) – a free online research conference for and by teachers (mainly TESOL) and their mentors, across borders.
For a flavour, and registration, see resig.weebly.com/teachers-res...
From the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT 2024-25 (mentrnet.net/festival)
A short article just published on the British Council website: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional...
A new blog post on school improvement through mentoring Exploratory Action Research, by Sirin Soyoz and Ghazala Sajjad: mentrnet.net/school-impro... – talking about their involvement with the British Council’s Action Research mentoring initiatives in Partner Schools.
Upcoming event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT 2024-25. Further information and registration: mentrnet.net/integrating-...
Summary of a MenTRnet discussion exploring potential roles of AI in teacher-research mentoring: action-research.ai/exploring-po...
Video of Saturday's Celebration of MenTRnet (an international community of mentors of teacher-research) / Launch of two publications - now YouTubed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTde.... More info.: mentrnet.net/a-celebratio...
All are welcome to this online introduction / celebration of MenTRnet - an international network for mentors of teacher-research mentrnet.net – and the launch of two publications! mentrnet.net/a-celebratio... - an event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT
#MenTRnet #TeacherResearch @IATEFLResig
African teacher-researchers 👉🏻 register for this conference tomorrow (Saturday 11th January)! 1pm GMT onwards
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@Ernesto_AppLing @RichardSmithELT
A Japanese translation of A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research by Richard Smith and P. Rebolledo has just been published: mentrnet.net/japanese-tra...
Stories of Mentoring Teacher-Research - new Open Access publication from IATEFL Research SIG and MenTRnet resig.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/...
Video of the most recent International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research event:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L6F...
This webinar provided insights from organizers and mentors of the SCERT-Delhi teacher-research initiative. Further information:
mentrnet.net/mentoring-te...
#edtech #MenTRnet #teachersresearch #EAR @richardsmithelt.bsky.social
@iatefl.bsky.social
An example of supportive mentorship 👇🏻
mentrnet.net/supportive_m...
Coming up - this Saturday, with ELTons 'Outstanding Achievement' Award winner Professor Rama Mathew and mentors from SCERT-Delhi mentrnet.net/mentoring-te...
December 14th event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT (2024-25). More info and registration here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Featuring mentors for the SCERT-Delhi initiative, introduced by Prof. Rama Mathew
Festival website: mentrnet.net/festival/
MenTRnet (mentrnet.net) has supported the journey of this journal so far, and will continue to do so! Congratulations to editor Robert Dickey and asociate editor Eli Békés for this achievement!
A positive review in the first issue of ELT Classroom Journal, just published: eltcrj.com/v1-i1-okaz-a...
The Teacher Research Journey: Voices of champion teachers - a collection of Exploratory Action Research (EAR) reports - and reports of mentoring EAR – from Uzbekistan drive.google.com/file/d/183NH...
Congratulations to 'Noticing'! Hear more about it on 22 February 2025, 1.00–2.30pm (UTC) in ‘Using AI to help mentor teacher inquiry’ – a webinar led by Elena Oncevska-Ager, Matthew Ager, Sirin Soyoz and Richard Smith. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
The Winner of the 2024 ELTons Award for Innovation in Use of Technology has just been announced online, and the judges made a great choice:
The Winner is ... "Noticing". about.noticing.network
A creative use of AI that empowers rather than deskills teachers.
www.britishcouncil.org/english-asse...
At this latest event in the International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research in ELT (2024/25), five teachers who had engaged in teacher-research described their journeys to becoming mentors of Exploratory Action Research by/for other teachers. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/oZJohJpcGI0?...
Exploratory Action Research in Thai Schools – www.britishcouncil.or.th/sites/defaul... – reports from teachers
