Workshop series
Following the success of our two workshop series for mentors and teacher-researchers in 2025, we are delighted to announce that MenTRnet will once again be running two five-week workshop series in 2026, in association with IATEFL Research SIG. Both series will be completely free to join.
Workshop information
Mentoring Teacher-Research 2026
📢 Registration now open
The first workshop series of 2026 – the IATEFL ReSIG / MenTRnet Mentoring Teacher-Research workshop series – will run from May 2 to June 6 and will focus on developing teacher-research mentoring skills. Led by Seden Eraldemir Tuyan, with a team including Ravi Chakrakodi, Ana Garcia Stone, Mariana Serra, Richard Smith, and Elyanora Menglieva, this series is intended for those who have started or are hoping to start to mentor teachers or student-teachers to research their own practice.
We warmly welcome novice mentors but also returning participants, as a key purpose of the workshops is to (continue to) build the global community of teacher-research mentors. If you’re interested, we also encourage you to join the MenTRnet Facebook group or MenTRnet‘s discussion list, which will feature updates about future workshops The Mentoring Teacher-Research workshops feature content from this book, which you might like to browse to get an idea of the kind of activity involved.
Registration is now open at this link: https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/4TB6R3
Teacher-Research for Professional Development 2026
📢 The registration for this workshop series will open in Septepmber - October 2026.
The second free workshop series of 2025 – the IATEFL ReSIG / MenTRnet Teacher-Research for Professional Development workshop series –ran successfully from 29 September to 31 October, 2025. This series is designed for teachers or student-teachers of English or other subjects who wish to begin researching their own classrooms. We are pleased to announce that the same workshop series will be offered again in 2026. Further details will be shared on this website in due course. You can also join the Teacher-Research for Professional Development Facebook group and/or the Teachers Research! Facebook group to get updates. The workshop series features a weekly online meeting (recorded for those unable to attend), online resources, and ongoing mentoring.
Both workshop series are experientially based, involving weekly input sessions and discussions using Zoom and Canvas, as well as weekly tasks to complete. Certificates are awarded to those who complete the series by submitting a plan of action soon after the endpoint in each case.
Supported by a grant from the University of Warwick and the Economic and Social Research Council (grant reference ES/X004635/1)