27 November 2021 – An interactive event featuring poster presentations and Q&A with an international group of mentors reflecting on their experiences mentoring English language teachers inquiring into their professional practice during 2021. The mentor-presenters were all participants in an online support group led by Richard Smith (later, this developed into MenTRnet), with support from a University of Warwick/ESRC grant (no. ES/T502054/1),
Programme with links to posters and video-recording here: http://bit.ly/mentoring-tr-2021
About the Author(s)
Richard Smith is a Professor at the University of Warwick, where he has taught on the MA TESOL programme and supervised PhD students for twenty-five years. He has advised on several teacher-research mentoring projects for the British Council, developing the Exploratory Action Research approach to teacher development and original ideas on how to mentor teacher-researchers in the process. He is former coordinator of the IATEFL Research SIG (2011–2015), originator of the Teachers Research! series of conferences and founder and chair of the International Festivals of (Mentoring) Teacher-Research (2017, 2021, 2024). More information: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/richardcsmith
