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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 2012

If you would like to see how mentoring is integrated into action research for teachers' professional development...

Look at the web-based research accounts by members of the
Bitterne Park School Teacher Research Group, Southampton

Sarah wishes to express her most profound thanks to colleagues at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan for the award of a doctorate on 18/01/12

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THIS SITE IS BEING UPDATED - PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON!

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November 5-8 2010

CARN (Collaborative Action Research Network) Conference University Arms Hotel Cambridge. How far are the various presentations about practice in actual fact action research?

August 1-31 2010

E-seminar in response to Dr. Jack Whitehead's call for discussion proposed in Research Intelligence, the newsletter for the British Educational Research Association. Does he condone plagiarism? How far do his flows of 'life affirming energy' emerge in his work? Archived postings in August's e-seminar can be accessed HERE.

June 14 2010

'Time to Play' seminar Wallasey, Merseyside 'How about we peer mentor?'
Invited by Nick Owen of the Aspire Trust, Sarah Fletcher led the session:

May 8 2010

E-seminar: "Questions in the Practice of Mentoring"

BERA Mentoring and Coaching Special Interest Group is delighted to welcome you to the latest in their series of e-seminars. Dianne Allen will be convening her seminar from May 10 on our MENTORING-COACHING weblist - CLICK HERE for Dianne's introduction and opening questions

May 9 2010

Fatma Al Hinai posted to our JISCmail TEACHER-RESEARCHER discussion list from the Oman
asking for advice in helping teachers in schools in Oman to become more entrepreneurial.

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Archive from 2009 for this website (Click here)

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Archive from 2008 for this website (Click here)

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Archive from 2007 for this website (Click here)

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News and views ...

Do you know... there are two discussion lists for the mentoring and coaching special interest group for the British Educational Research Association?

CLICK for the JISCmail Mentoring and Coaching discussion list

CLICK for the JISCmail Teacher Research discussion list

Do you know... that if you join the Mentoring and Coaching Special Interest Group for the British Educational Research Association (the Convenor is Sarah Fletcher) you are elegible to receive a
major discount
on the annual rate for the internationally acclaimed Mentoring and Tutoring Journal?

Do you know... about the open access mentoring and coaching journal?

CLICK for the International Journal for Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring
edited by Dr Elaine Cox and Birgit den Outer at Oxford Brookes University

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TEACHER LEARNING ACADEMY Stages of Recognition

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Have you seen...

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

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

Web-based resources to support mentoring in initial teacher training

A web-based tribute to the teacher researchers in China

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

 


 



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 March 19 2012

 

 

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