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Introduction

This website shows how teachers in schools can initiate and sustain educational research within their everyday work in their classroom. Teachers as researchers are often supported by a process of 'research mentoring' (Fletcher, 2005) integrating mentoring into action enquiry. Teachers and research mentors are 'experts' whose skills, values and understandings complement and enrich one another's practice.

Teachers' action research is on-going professional development for teachers, by teachers rather than being done to teachers by outside 'experts'. It is a form of systematic enquiry undertaken by individuals or groups who share a passion to improve their own and others' teaching and learning to support students in school.


These are the website's main areas:


Latest News!

11-17 August 2008

How can I use web-based technology to elicit, represent and disseminate my own learning about teachers' professional development in Japan?
CLICK
to access this on-line emerging account using KEEP Toolkit Templates.

18-22 August 2008

BERA members only Summer School: using web-based technology to assist practitioners to elicit, represent and disseminate their own learning.
See http://www.bera.ac.uk for details of how to join BERA and summer school.

3-6 September 2008

British Educational Research Association Annual Conference

11 August 2008

Please help Marie Armaou by completing her on-line teacher research questionnaire. CLICK HERE. The aim of her research is to explore the occupational pattern of character strengths, how they are related to life satisfaction, and how parameters of teachers' jobs affect this relationship.


Archive:

28 June 2008

GTC conference 'Personalising CPD'
Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London
CLICK to access conference notes


Forthcoming Events:


8-12 September 2008

European Conference on Educational Research
Gothenburg, Sweden. Theme: From Teaching to Learning?

24 November 2008

National Teacher Research Panel Conference
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre,
Westminster,
London
10:30am to 4pm
(coffee and registration 9:30am)
CLICK for the Conference flyer
This free event will provide a forum for teachers and school leaders, professional researchers and local and national policy makers to learn together from the best practitioner research in the system. The conference represents a unique opportunity to examine key issues emerging from rigorous practitioner enquiry over the previous 2 years and has established a reputation for innovation and high quality.

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Archive:

28 June 2008

GTC conference 'Personalising CPD'
Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London
CLICK to access conference notes

21 June 2008

BERA Mentoring and Coaching Special Interest Group
Bailbrook House, Bath, Somerset
Focus: Preparing for BERA's Annual Conference
Focus: Mentoring and Coaching SIG Publication
Focus: SIG plans short, medium and long term

13 June 2008

Workshop for the Collaborative Action Research Network
'What Counts as an impact?'

1 June 2008 (deadline August 1 2008)

Call for proposals opens for the Annual Conference for the
American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 2009

19 April 2008

BERA Mentoring and Coaching Special Interest Group
Bailbrook House, Bath, Somerset.
Focus: Appreciative Mentoring

For a copy of the day's programme Please
CLICK HERE

5 April 2008

BERA Mentoring and Coaching Special Interest Group
Bailbrook House, Bath, Somerset. Focus on coaching

For a copy of the day's programme Please
CLICK HERE

4 April 2008

Annual Research Conference for Mentoring and Coaching
Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill campus, Oxford

April 2008

CLICK here for Sarah's completed paper for AERA 2008: Technology Enabled Educational Research Mentoring for Teacher Researchers. My paper was developed between 27 and 31 March 2008 as a celebration of using web-based technology and multi media in teacher research.

24-28 March 2008

Annual Conference in New York The American Educational Research Association. Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility.
See 'Educational Researcher'; What Makes Education Research "Educational" ?

17 March 2008

Sarah Fletcher, who convenes the Mentoring and Coaching SIG for the British Educational Research Association and maintains this website, is presenting 'Mentoring Adult Learners: Realizing Possible Selves' at the Bristol Coaching Exchange. To download: CLICK HERE. This research was published in Rossiter, M. (ed.) (2007) New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, JosseyBass, USA. PowerPoint CLICK HERE

Do you know about the excellent Research of the Month feature offered by the GTCe (General Teaching Council for England)?

Have you seen the materials available at teacher training resource bank? if not, you are in for a treat! Do look at the review of Rosalind Rice's paper focusing on The Mentor's Use of Adult Learning Theories Rosalind's paper presented on 29 September 2007 at the BERA Mentoring and Coaching SIG Study day in Milton Keynes is accessible if you CLICK HERE

With so many activities there has never been a better time to join BERA Mentoring and Coaching SIG - join at http://www.bera.ac.uk

25 January 2008

Deadline for submitting proposals for presentation at BERA 2008!
Annual Conference for the British Educational Research Association
6-9 September Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Remember to indicate you belong to the Mentoring and Coaching SIG

Preferential rates for SIG for the Mentoring and Coaching Journal

9-12 January 2008

BETT show at Olympia in London - the world's largest educational technology showcase. Many exhibitors related to teacher research,
including:

Teachers TV
Futurelab
NCSL
TDA
ABCi Ltd

Highights from 2007 include...

16 November 2007

International Mentoring and Coaching Research Seminar, Bath

Including a workshop on using technology to enhance practice
CLICK
The Carnegie Foundation's KEEP Toolkit technology offers easy access to resources for mentoring in initial teacher training

CLICK The Carnegie Foundation's KEEP Toolkit technology offers easy access to resources for Representing Teachers' Knowledge


1-30 September 2007

1) What research mentoring support do teachers currently receive?
2) What research mentoring support do teachers find most useful?
3) What research mentoring support would teachers like to receive?
4) How does multimedia with mentoring support teachers' research?

Archives of our E-seminar on Research Mentoring are accessible
Here: CLICK
BERA-TEACHER-RESEARCHER JISCmail discussion list,


29 September 2007

CLICK Research Mentoring and Coaching Conference and Study Day
BERA Mentoring & Coaching/Practitioner Researcher SIGs with CARN

5 - 8 September 2007

BERA Annual Conference, The Institute of Education, London.

Workshop 1 Thursday 6 September 9.00 - 10.30 am
'Using multi media in Educational Research Mentoring'

How might we use the KML technology in educational research?

* What do we mean by educational research mentoring?
* Why use multi media in research in education contexts?
* How do we evaluate the quality of multi media in research?
* How far are RAE 2008 criteria appropriate for multi media use? What other criteria for evaluating multi media are useful? (Discussion)


Workshop 2 Saturday 8 September 9.30 - 10.30 am
'Enabling Practitioner Research through Research Mentoring'

How are practitioner researchers using multi media in research?

* Why might practitioners use multi media in their research?
* How do research mentors incorporate multi media in mentoring?

* How can research mentoring be 'generative' in enabling research?
* What are some of the advantages and drawbacks in using multi media in research mentoring with practitioner researchers?
(Discussion)


23 March 2007

OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY
3rd Annual Coaching & Mentoring Research Conference
Sarah's opening keynote address on Research Mentoring


News and views ...

CARA awards by Creative Partnerships

TLA Stages of Recognition for Teacher Learning

CUREE's resources for mentoring and coaching

Teachers' TV CLICK for action research by teachers

Action research for teachers - link to Becta's website

 

Have you seen...

Mike Gasper and Paul Watling's paper 'Reflections on Leadership mentoring and the Zone of Proximal Development'

2006 archives and an invitation to post up Teacher Researcher events

Web-based resources to support mentoring in initial teacher training

The Reviews section of this website offering selected book reviews.

Web-based research accounts by members of the
Bitterne Park School Teacher Research Group in Southampton?

A web-based tribute to the teacher researchers in China

A web-based archive of evidence that teachers' research impacts constructively on teaching and learning in schools.

The Canadian on-line journal Teaching Today for Tomorrow


 



Fletcher, S. (2000) 'Mentoring in Schools'
is published by RoutledgeFalmer, London. To see other publications by Sarah Fletcher, please click here

You can purchase a copy of Mentoring in Schools at
http://www.amazon.co.uk or at http://www.amazon.com

Sarah Fletcher is a freelance consultant in research mentoring. She has taught in schools and higher education institutions since 1973. She maintains this website.


Updated August 13 2008

 

 

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