This personal reflection explores the power of supportive mentoring, both in my journey as a teacher and a researcher and in what I have learned from mentoring others. Through my experiences, I’ve realized that teachers can flourish if they are supported,…
Busy teachers have little time to read, and even less time to write. Research itself can be combined with teaching but busy teachers may decide that writing up their findings for publication is too daunting, tiresome or even unnecessary. How can…
I first began to think seriously about what it meant to be ethical in my teacher research when my classroom practice, and in particular, my Exploratory Practice (Hanks 2017), was generating the data for my doctorate. Although I had an…
This is the new website of MenTRnet, which itself is a newly named network for mentors of teacher-research in the field of English Language Teaching (though we don’t exclude mentors of teachers of other subjects). It’s ‘newly named’ because we…
