An Enhancement Approach - Integrating Insights from Teachers' Own Experience

Here are links / resources connected with my keynote at the Dakhla CRMEF Conference on Teacher Training: International Professional Practices: Academic, Professional and Innovation Paths, 5–6 December 2025, Morocco

 

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In this talk I particularly made reference to the following Open Acess publications and websites:

1. Decentring ELT

• (2023) Decentring ELT: Practices and PossibilitiesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window 
• Hornby Trust Decentring ELT web-page: https://www.hornby-trust.org.uk/decentring-elt/
• 'The journey of an African teacher: decentring ELT' by Mohamed Lehjef, in Creating Global ChangeLink opens in a new window

2. An Enhancement Approach

• (2017) Teaching in Low-resource Classrooms: Voices of Experience. 
• TELCnet (Teaching English in Large Classes Network): https://telcnet.weebly.com/
• Teacher Association Research ('TA-research') in Cameroon: https://resig.weebly.com/cameroon.html

3. Teacher-Research for Difficult Circumstances

• (2018) A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research.
• Teacher-Research for Difficult Circumstances overall project: http://warwick.ac.uk/trdc
• (2019) Exploring for Action, Acting for Change: Stories of Exploratory Action Research in Nepal

4. Mentoring Teacher-Research

• (2020). Mentoring teachers to research their classrooms: a practical handbook.
• Mentoring for Exploratory Action Research overall project: http://warwick.ac.uk/al/research/mdear
• International Festival of Mentoring Teacher-Research (2024–25): https://mentrnet.net/festival/ 

 

Further teacher-research resources:

http://warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmith/resources

https://mentrnet.net/resources/

 

Email: R.C.Smith@warwick.ac.uk

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardcsmith/