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Teachers research! Innovative, international sharing and mentoring

A talk by Richard Smith for the International Festival of Teacher-research in ELT 2021 / TESOL International Electronic Village Online on Classroom-based Research for Professional Development 2021, 13 February 2021

Facebook Live recording here

 
1) Background

 

My own research as a practitioner
A handbook for teachers
Richard Smith & Paula Rebolledo (2018) A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research London: British Council.
A handbook for mentors or prospective mentors
Richard Smith (2020) Mentoring Teachers to Research Their Classrooms: A Practical Handbook. New Delhi: British Council.

 

2) Innovative sharing

 

Richard Smith, Deborah Bullock, Paula Rebolledo and Andrea Robles López). (2016).'By teachers for teachers: innovative, teacher-friendly publishing of practitioner research' English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) Journal 20: 116–125.
 
Items in different formats on IATEFL Research SIG 'Teacher Reports' page
  • First-person written narrative (Yasmin Dar)
  • Video-recorded presentation (Ana Inés Salvi, Katie Moran)
  • PowerPoint presentation with audio and blog entry (Sandy Millin)
 
Poster presentation as publication
 
From poster presentation to further sharing via reader-friendly writing

 

3) International sharing

 

Richard Smith (2016) 'The concept, and spirit of Teachers Research!' in Deborah Bullock and Richard Smith (eds) Teachers Research!. Faversham: IATEFL (2016)
 
IATEFL Research Special Interest Group
Website
Facebook group
 
A new kind of conference: Teachers Research!
Harrogate (2014) -->
International Teachers Research! conferences:
Turkey (2015–2018?),
Chile (2016)
Argentina (2017)
Facebook group

 

TESOL EVO on Classroom-based Research for Professional Development
Website
Facebook group
 
International Festival of Teacher-research in ELT (2017)
Website
e.g. Delhi mela

 

TESOL EVO on Mentoring Teacher-research
Website
Facebook group
 
International Festival of Teacher-research in ELT (2021)
Website
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