Week 5 (10-17 Feb, 2019) : How teachers can share their research
In this final week of the Electronic Village Online, we will discuss how teacher-research findings can be shared with others.
If you've been participating in this year's EVO and have been able to carry out some research, we warmly encourage you to share some of your own findings in a final round-up session on 22nd March. For details please join us at this week's webinar and read below.
Activities
Activity 1 (Main activity): What are my findings and what have I learned?
Complete this when you have collected and analysed some data to answer your research questions:
1) What have been the main findings of your research so far?
2) What have you learned as a teacher?
3) What are you planning to do next?
Answer the above questions in Google+ under '10. What are your findings, and what have you learned?'
Activity 2: Present your overall research to others in the EVO community
We invite participants to present a 3-minute summary of their research in the final live round up session on March 22nd. There will be a special live session on this date and If you would like to present, if possible make some accompanying visual material and provide the link to this or upload a maximum of three PowerPoint slides. You can tell us that you'd like to present - and upload your slides or tell us the link to other visual material in this Google Form
You can also present your findings using one of the following:
1) Make your own oral and/or visual presentation and send it (or a link to it) to Asli Saglam at: [email protected] We will then share details of where your presentation is to be found in the Google+ space and Facebook page.
2) Share an oral and/or visual presentation directly to the Facebook page:
In the future you can carry on sharing your research in the Teachers Research! Facebook group and/or the Teaching English in Large Classes Facebook group .
Complete this when you have collected and analysed some data to answer your research questions:
1) What have been the main findings of your research so far?
2) What have you learned as a teacher?
3) What are you planning to do next?
Answer the above questions in Google+ under '10. What are your findings, and what have you learned?'
Activity 2: Present your overall research to others in the EVO community
We invite participants to present a 3-minute summary of their research in the final live round up session on March 22nd. There will be a special live session on this date and If you would like to present, if possible make some accompanying visual material and provide the link to this or upload a maximum of three PowerPoint slides. You can tell us that you'd like to present - and upload your slides or tell us the link to other visual material in this Google Form
You can also present your findings using one of the following:
1) Make your own oral and/or visual presentation and send it (or a link to it) to Asli Saglam at: [email protected] We will then share details of where your presentation is to be found in the Google+ space and Facebook page.
2) Share an oral and/or visual presentation directly to the Facebook page:
In the future you can carry on sharing your research in the Teachers Research! Facebook group and/or the Teaching English in Large Classes Facebook group .
Resources
Here are some resources to help you think about how to share your research with others:
1) Structure of a basic research report:
1. My starting-point / My questions
2. What did I do (to collect evidence / to analyse)?
3. What did I find and what did I learn?
2) Presentations of ideas gathered from teachers at the Kathmandu workshop (on video):
In these presentations groups of teachers share good ideas they have gathered from other teachers at the workshop in relation to particular issues which are important to them:
Materials and methodology in low-resource classrooms
Managing low-resource classrooms
Diversity in low-resource classrooms ]
3) Two examples of associated written reports:
[drafts of chapters now published in Smith, R., Padwad, A. & Bullock, D. (eds.) 2017. Teaching in Low-Resource Classrooms: Voices of Experience. London: British Council.]
'Increasing participation and managing group work'
'Managing multiple classes in one room without partitions'
4) How can you structure a written report according to what you've written so far in Google+?
[1. My starting-point / My questions] → Google+ 1. Self-introductions / 2. You and your classroom / 4. What are your problems / puzzles?
[2. What did I do?] → Google+ 5. What will you explore, what evidence will you gather?] / 6. Ethical considerations / 7. How will you analyse?
[3. What did I find and what did I learn?] → Google+ 10. What are your findings, and what have you learned?
5) An article on teacher-friendly ways of sharing teacher-research:
Richard Smith, Deborah Bullock, Paula Rebolledo and Andrea Robles López - 'By teachers for teachers': innovative, teacher-friendly publishing of practitioner research
6) Presenting research online
Digital story-telling tools
Online Interactive Posters (Gloster & Thinglink)
7) Examples of poster presentations (at the Teachers Research! Izmir 2015 conference in Izmir, Turkey, 2015) which have been uploaded online.
8) Chapter 9 of A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research (by Richard Smith and Paula Rebolledo), British Council: 'Where do I go from here?'
1) Structure of a basic research report:
1. My starting-point / My questions
2. What did I do (to collect evidence / to analyse)?
3. What did I find and what did I learn?
2) Presentations of ideas gathered from teachers at the Kathmandu workshop (on video):
In these presentations groups of teachers share good ideas they have gathered from other teachers at the workshop in relation to particular issues which are important to them:
Materials and methodology in low-resource classrooms
Managing low-resource classrooms
Diversity in low-resource classrooms ]
3) Two examples of associated written reports:
[drafts of chapters now published in Smith, R., Padwad, A. & Bullock, D. (eds.) 2017. Teaching in Low-Resource Classrooms: Voices of Experience. London: British Council.]
'Increasing participation and managing group work'
'Managing multiple classes in one room without partitions'
4) How can you structure a written report according to what you've written so far in Google+?
[1. My starting-point / My questions] → Google+ 1. Self-introductions / 2. You and your classroom / 4. What are your problems / puzzles?
[2. What did I do?] → Google+ 5. What will you explore, what evidence will you gather?] / 6. Ethical considerations / 7. How will you analyse?
[3. What did I find and what did I learn?] → Google+ 10. What are your findings, and what have you learned?
5) An article on teacher-friendly ways of sharing teacher-research:
Richard Smith, Deborah Bullock, Paula Rebolledo and Andrea Robles López - 'By teachers for teachers': innovative, teacher-friendly publishing of practitioner research
6) Presenting research online
Digital story-telling tools
Online Interactive Posters (Gloster & Thinglink)
7) Examples of poster presentations (at the Teachers Research! Izmir 2015 conference in Izmir, Turkey, 2015) which have been uploaded online.
8) Chapter 9 of A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research (by Richard Smith and Paula Rebolledo), British Council: 'Where do I go from here?'
Hoped-for achievements
By the end of this week you will have:
- thought about how to share your research
- collected some evidence in relation to your research questions and prepared to share it
FIFTH LIVE SESSION: Click here to join us on Saturday 17th February at 22:00 UTC+3 (Time where you are here). Enter as a 'Guest', writing your full name.
We hope that some of you will volunteer to present (see Activity 2 above)! Also, mentors will comment on some of the work done by participants and indicate ways we can continue to keep in touch.
FOLLOW-UP SESSION: Click here to join us on Friday 22nd March at 18:00 UTC+3
(Time where you are here). Enter as a 'Guest', writing your full name.