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Mentoring Teacher-research

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Session Title: 

 

Mentoring Teacher-research

 


 

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Abstract:  

 

Teacher-research can be a powerful process, having a profound impact on teachers and learners. There are now quite a few resources on classroom-based research which are easily available to English language teachers. However, there is a lack of guidance on how to support teacher research, particularly as a mentor.

 

Accordingly, this session aims to create a community of teacher-research mentors, providing an opportunity to share insights and provide specific guidance to enable mentors and prospective mentors to play what can be a pivotal role in supporting teacher-research.

 


 

Target audience:

 

  • Teacher educators, teacher development group leaders etc. who are currently mentoring teachers or student-teachers to do research into their classroom practice
  • Intending or past mentors of teacher-research who want to know more about the process before they begin (again)
  • Curious but undecided potential teacher-research mentors who want to know more about what’s involved before they decide

 

Participants may also be:

 

  • Decision-makers, administrators, school leaders, teacher educators or group leaders wondering whether to initiate and/or design a programme to encourage teacher-research

 


 

Session objectives: 

 

Participants will be engaged in the following activities:

 

  • Sharing ideas about the nature of mentoring and what mentoring teacher-research might specifically need to involve
  •  A planning task involving consideration of who to mentor and establishment of a timeline and plan for effective communications

 

We also focus on the following stages of teacher-research mentoring, engaging participants in practical activities relating to each of them. 

 

  • Helping teachers to select a topic 
  • Guiding teachers to develop research questions
  • Preparing teachers to collect data
  • Guiding teachers to analyse and interpret data
  • Supporting teachers to plan and evaluate change
  • Helping teachers to share and reflect on their research 

 

The syllabus and practical activities are based on a new British Council publication, Mentoring Teachers to Research Their Classrooms. Itself based on practical experience in Latin America and South Asia, this will be complemented by questions and insights from participants themselves in relation to their own experiences.

 

Finally, we encourage teacher-research mentors to continue to link up internationally, and we indicate resources and possibilities for follow-up. 

 


 

Syllabus:

 

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Week 1: (January 10 - 16) 

 

What does teacher-research mentoring involve?  / Webinar – Sun. Jan. 10, 14:30 (UTC)

 

  • Sharing of teacher-research and teacher-research mentoring experiences among participants 
  • Discussion of why mentoring is important for supporting teacher-research 
  • Sharing ideas about the nature of mentoring and what mentoring teacher-research specifically needs to involve 

 


 

Week 2: (January 17 - 23)

 

Developing topics and questions Webinar – Sun Jan 17, 14:30 (UTC)

 

  • Helping teachers to select a topic 
  • Guiding teachers to develop research questions

 


 

Week 3: (January 24 - 30)

 

Supporting data collection, analysis and interpretation / Webinar – Sun Jan 24,14:30 (UTC)

 

  • Preparing teachers to collect data
  • Guiding teachers to analyse and interpret data

 


 

Week 4: (January 31 - February 6)

 

Making a mentoring plan – and guiding teachers to plan and evaluate change / Webinar 4 – Sun Jan. 31, 14:30 (UTC)

 

  • A planning task involving consideration of who to mentor and establishment of a timeline and effective communications 
  • Supporting teachers to plan and evaluate change

 


 

Week 5: (February 7 - 13)

 

Helping teachers to share and reflect on their research / Webinars – Sun Feb 7, 14:30 (UTC) & Sat. Feb 13, 14:30 (UTC)

 

  • Helping teachers to share and reflect on their research 
  • Wrap-up, taking things further, and evaluation of the EVO

 

 


 

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Smith, Richard

 

r.c.smith@warwick.ac.uk

 

UK

 

Dr Richard Smith has worked in teacher education for almost twenty-five years, the last twenty of them in the UK at the University of Warwick. He is the co-founder and former co-ordinator (2008–18) of the Teaching English in Large Classes research and development network (TELCnet), former co-ordinator of the IATEFL Research SIG (2011–15) and founder and chair of the steering committee of the International Festival of Teacher-research in ELT (2017–18). He has published widely on topics ranging from teacher-research to the history of language learning and teaching, and has worked with teachers from many countries, both directly and as academic adviser to teacher-research mentoring schemes in Latin America and South Asia. For his publications and further information see http://warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmith

 

 

Eraldemir Tuyan, Seden

 

sedentuyan@gmail.com

 

Turkey


Dr Seden Eraldemir Tuyan 
is 

lecturer in the Department of English Language Teaching at Çağ University, Mersin, Turkey, and is interested in psychological perspectives on ELT, including individual learner differences in language learning, motivation, learner autonomy and beliefs. She has published articles on various aspects of affect in foreign language learning. Her major interests are Emotional Intelligence, Social-Emotional Learning, individual differences in SLA, Action Research, and personal and professional development.

 

 

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Richard Smith

 


 

Acknowledgement

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you acknowledge the following:

 

  • I understand that session first-time moderators are required and returning moderators are encouraged to participate in the 5-week Moderators' Development Session from October 18 until November 15, 2021.

  • I am available to actively engage in the EVO session I have agreed to co-moderate between January 9 and February 14, 2021. 

  • I further understand that 

    • EVO sessions are free of advertising and commercial sponsorship.

    • EVO sessions are free and open to all

    • No academic credit may be given for participation.

 

Richard Smith

 

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