Welcome to new members of the EVO on Mentoring Teacher-research, who are beginning to join.. We will send some guidance soon about what to do while waiting for the first live weekly online meeting, which will be this coming Sunday 9th January at 14:30 GMT, here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83194527935?pwd=SXNqV0sxRHk1RTRmWlRKNER6cWRuQT09 Meeting ID: 831 9452 7935 Passcode: 715646 Best wishes Richard and Seden In the meantime, here is the provisional weekly schedule, which is similar to that in 2020 - but with some new features, e.g. peer-coaching in break-out rooms. Week 1: (January 9 - 15) What does teacher-research mentoring involve? / 1st online meeting – Sun. Jan. 9, 14:30 (GMT) Sharing of teacher-research and teacher-research mentoring experiences among participants Discussion of why mentoring is important for supporting teacher-research Sharing ideas about the nature of mentoring and what mentoring teacher-research specifically needs to involve Week 2: (January 16 - 22) Developing topics and questions / 2nd online meeting– Sun Jan 16, 14:30 (GMT) Helping teachers to select a topic Guiding teachers to develop research questions Week 3: (January 23 - 29) Supporting data collection, analysis and interpretation / 3rd online meeting – Sun Jan 23,14:30 (GMT) Preparing teachers to collect data Guiding teachers to analyse and interpret data Week 4: (January 30 - February 5) Making a mentoring plan – and guiding teachers to plan and evaluate change / 4th online meeting – Sun Jan. 30, 14:30 (GMT) A planning task involving consideration of who to mentor and establishment of a timeline and effective communications Supporting teachers to plan and evaluate change​ Week 5: (February 6 - 13) Helping teachers to share and reflect on their research / 5th online meeting – Sun Feb 6, 14:30 (GMT) & 6th online meeting - Sun. Feb 13, 14:30 (GMT) Helping teachers to share and reflect on their research Wrap-up, taking things further, and evaluation of the EVO

Here is guidance for what you can do during this week as new members register, to prepare for our first live meeting on Sunday: https://groups.io/g/Mentoring-TR/wiki/16042 Please take a look and take the action you can! best wishes Richard and Sden

Welcome to all our new members! Here's a reminder that our first online meeting will be tomorrow/today - Sunday, 9th January at 14:30 GMT, here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83194527935?pwd=SXNqV0sxRHk1RTRmWlRKNER6cWRuQT09 What to do before then if you can is here: https://groups.io/g/Mentoring-TR/wiki/16042. To this, I've added a link to video and posters from last November's Mentoring Teacher-research – in a time of Covid-19 event If you have time, check it out - if not before tomorrow, then during the coming week best wishes Richard

If you look in the 'Files' area, you will find the Powerpoint slides from today's meeting, plus the document showing different types of mentoring question, with examples. We will upload meeting documents to this area each week. Here: https://groups.io/g/Mentoring-TR/files/ best wishes Richard

‘What are your experiences, hopes, expectations, plans, questions regarding mentoring teacher-research?' Feel free to share your reflections with other participants here (in response to this message), before Sunday 9th January

Our second online meeting occurred today, and the link to the recording is here, together with meeting 'chat', for those unable to participate live: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/4GI71zdZPV2Djb647GLXtUv__5f0XqDUVvYH84KTN82cn7r0R3lY4HQKbn5l1uVR8x6tBSxOg4GRWJIJ.D7JfgqqklrYNG2FW?autoplay=true&startTime=1642343447000 Please watch the recording if you are still continuing with us. Activities for Week 2 are now 'live' for everyone, too, here: https://groups.io/g/Mentoring-TR/wiki/28956 Best wishes Richard and Seden

[If you have mentored teachers to do research] What is challenging for you in mentoring teachers to research their classrooms? What has been helpful for you in overcoming challenges? Or [if you have not mentored teachers to do research] What do you imagine will be particularly challenging for you in mentoring teachers to research their classrooms? What do you think will help you in mentoring teachers?

We've had our first online meeting now, and the link to the recording of this, together with meeting 'chat' is here for those unable to participate live: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/XJiNjRCwI1DBJudXcEFKGQLXvMt2SMzv7FQq6UzX7ZHP-2Q-vGn3NNyW-yLN7yz8.cwMC0q-PzsdC7sJs?startTime=1641738797000 Please watch the recording, which contains guidance about what we're doing during the EVO overall and during the coming week, in particular. Activities for Week 1 are now 'live', too, here: https://groups.io/g/Mentoring-TR/wiki/29018 ( https://groups.io/g/Mentoring-TR/wiki/28895 ) Best wishes Richard and Seden

Did anyone else manage to meet up a with a fellow participant or another teacher you know this week for a mentoring dialogue? If so, would you mind sharing some reflections about the experience here? During tomorrow's meeting, we'll have more opportunity to be engaging in peer-coaching in pairs with time for sharing reflections on what is difficult / beneficial in mentoring for teacher-research. Hope you can join us! best wishes Richard

Some of you were wondering during last week's meeting why I used the term 'peer-coaching' rather than mentoring or 'peer-mentoring' to describe what we were doing in pairs in break-out rooms, in other words engaging in a mentoring kind of conversation with one another. I said this was because mentoring involves someone with more experience engaging with someone who has less experience, so it's not an ideal term for a situation where two teachers can't be assumed to have different levels of experience - and, of course, we were hoping you would swap roles and 'mentor' one another. I came across the term peer-coaching for this kind of more equal relationship, and just found this too, so I do think it's quite an appropriate term for what we're doing (and will do in tomorrow's meeting too): "Peer coaching (also known as co-coaching) is a confidential process where two people, who are at a similar level, support each other to work through challenges they are facing. During a coaching session, peer coaches take turns to coach each other." https://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/projects/peer-coaching/#:~:text=Peer%20coaching%20(also%20known%20as,turns%20to%20coach%20each%20other. In an article on 'Enhancement mentoring' which I've uploaded to the 'Files' section (by Seden, Eli (Erzsebet / Elisabeth), Mariana and me), we discuss this use of the term 'peer-coaching' further. By the way, I'm thinking we need to agree to keep details of what we peer-coach about confidential within this platform, even if we have permission from one another to share with the group. I'm sure you can agree to that! best wishes Richard

The most important activity this week is to ... mentor a particular teacher / colleague to consider recent successes, difficulties and puzzles, to select a topic relating to their current teaching, and guide them to develop research questions for teacher-research. If you would prefer to interact with another member of EVO2022 - peer-coaching about your recent teaching – you can find a partner here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IvHbIysrmWyEafIMiOX1KDwgZ-RBY8V0Vc-kvuafknY/edit?usp=sharing [Ideally, record your conversation – with permission – and listen back to analyse and/or reflect on it]. Please share and critically reflect on your experience, from any point of view you like, here.

Today's meeting video is now available to view here: Part I (before break-out rooms): https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/DfmmtdD1M_JrDKGIPtobZxaP2QZytiOlBb0Havmh6esIqZQVtHWXnIJu2DEjSecu.uUICj5XHPtmz85HL?startTime=1642948517000 Part II (after break-out rooms); https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/DfmmtdD1M_JrDKGIPtobZxaP2QZytiOlBb0Havmh6esIqZQVtHWXnIJu2DEjSecu.uUICj5XHPtmz85HL?startTime=1642952680000 We had a very interesting conversation about many mentoring issues today - definitely worth watching (we think). The benefits of peer-coaching (for its own sake but also as a stepping-stone into mentoring teachers to do research) is emerging strongly, and we recommend you pair up with another participant to engage in this if you haven't done so already. You can still do so via the sign-up sheet here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IvHbIysrmWyEafIMiOX1KDwgZ-RBY8V0Vc-kvuafknY/edit * LIMITED SPECIAL OFFER* - If you do not have a teacher in mind to mentor to do research, our friends Mariana and Ruben, who are leading the EVO on Classroom-based Research for Professional Development, are offering the opportunity for you to mentor one of the teachers taking their EVO over the coming two to three weeks. If you'd like to do this you will need to contact Mariana eIther TODAY or at the latest TOMORROW (Monday). Her email address is mariana serra2@... ( marianaserra2@... ) Best wishes Richard and Seden

Apart from continuing to mentor a teacher or peer-coach with another participant, if you can, and reflect on the experience, the main activity this week is the following (see https://groups.io/g/Mentoring-TR/wiki/29017): Look back over Chapters 1 to 8 to consolidate work so far, and read Chapter 9 of Mentoring teachers to research their classrooms - then comment on or question anything you have read (and/or heard in online meetings 1 to 3), from any point of view you like, in response to this message. This is an opportunity to raise any questions that have arisen your mind relating to mentoring teacher-research.

Hi everyone I recorded a short extra piece of input relating to this week's topic of helping teachers. with data collection, here, for those interested: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/ZdXyYZbqsWREzrbgGMobiPnkEumaJH-xnFJ3x2d10LjrM5xw7HYBD8mulBO9DLpl.7x_Ey79OudApdWjm?startTime=1642959378000

We again had a very interesting meeting today, and the recording is now available for those unable to be there or unable to stay all the time: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/cvD5ez2aupxSW0WZIBjjHZfV1gK4nadvLwn0oA9Zg1eWU9aIbuhTLfitFQxvX36e.fbHcJ3JdCTSUdukq Announcements of activities for this coming week will follow

If you are currently mentoring someone to do teacher-research, or if you have mentored teacher-research in the past, share some issues (and perhaps research questions) that you think it might be useful / interesting / urgent (etc.) for you to research in relation to this experience, here.

If you have reflections to share or would like to report on ongoing (current) peer-coaching or mentoring experience, please do so in response to this message - it will be interesting for others to hear about and maybe respond to.

With our 'sister' EVO - the one on 'Classroom-based research for professional development' run by Mariana Serra and Ruben Mazzei, we've agreed to hold a special joint session this Sunday (February 6th) at 12 midday (GMT). You will need to register in advance to attend this session. You will be asked two questions when registering - choose 'Mentoring workshop' and 'Mentor' for your options when asked Register here to be sent the meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lcOCspz4pEtzsGf9r4oC4_JQgDaoMllJ7 The deadline for registration is today, Saturday 5th February, 9pm GMT. This is so that we can arrange break-out rooms in advance. As a (learning) mentor, you will have a mentoring dialogue with Classoom-based reseach for PD EVO participants, who will explain to you their research plans (research topic, research questions, data collection plan and intended way of analysing the data). Your job will be to listen attentively, encourage and question - but not to judge or directly advise. We're sure you'll find this an interesting encounter and hope you can make it! best wishes Richard and Seden

Here is my promised but delayed 20-minute input about 'Supporting teachers with data analysis and interpretation' - https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/8LnF6cmLxh83IY-49VBP_wviQ71lcvDHxNmoRiCtGIE-1HCrVS6k4_HUIdxEGjc8.VdOY-dMuwrJW17Ex?startTime=1644173005000 best wishes Richard

Here is an overview of week 5 activities (also here: https://groups.io/g/Mentoring-TR/wiki/29173) Week 5: Feb. 6–12 – Helping teachers to reflect on and share their research; / Online meeting 5 – Sun. Feb 6, 14:30 (UTC) Helping teachers to reflect on and share their research Wrap-up, taking things further, and evaluation of the EVO - on Sunday Feb. 13 Suggested activities for this week: 1. Watch the recording of online meeting 5 if you couldn't be there 'live' [click on text in red to go to the recording] 2. Read Chapters 11–12 of Mentoring teachers to research their classrooms 3. General discussion: share any ideas / questions / comments / queries here relating to content of the above videos / chapters - or about any other teacher-research mentoring issues. 4. By the end of the EVO (i.e. by Sunday 13 February), we encourage you to draft a realistic plan for your future mentoring -– you can use the template in ‘Files’ for this if you wish, or just write about it more informally. Share your plans and/or drafts and any comments/questions about planning here. We may arrange an extra online meeting session (e.g. some time in May) to hear your reports on how things went with your plans! 5 Please share your reflections about the Mentoring Teacher-research EVO community / experience. Where shall we go from here? How could the EVO be improved for next year or in two years if we do it again? You can contribute your reflections/evaluations here: [link to come] [Our final online meeting, involving sharing mentoring plans, will be on Sunday 13 February at 14:30 UTC (find out what time this is where you are here) You will be able to access the meeting at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83194527935?pwd=SXNqV0sxRHk1RTRmWlRKNER6cWRuQT09