Symposium: Reflections on Classroom-based

Action Research
Date: 9 December 2023
Venue: Room No. 202,
SCERT Bhawan, C Block
Defence Colony, Delhi 110024
Time: 10 am to 4 pm

SCERT is pleased to invite you to a Symposium where teachers, both primary and
secondary, from Delhi Government schools will be sharing their experience of carrying
out classroom research. Dr. Richard Smith, Professor of English Language Teaching
and Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK, will be the keynote speaker.
There will also be a Panel Discussion where teachers/mentors, school Principals and
University faculty members will discuss and debate issues emerging from doing Action
Research from multiple perspectives.
The programme is as follows:
9.30 am -10 am Registration
10.00 am -10-15 am Opening remarks by SCERT
10.15 am- 11.15 am Presentations by Batch 1 teacher researchers
11.15 am -11.45 am Tea Break
11. 45 am - 1 pm Panel Discussion
13.00 - 1.45 pm Lunch
1.45 pm - 2.45 pm Key note address by Professor Richard Smith
2.45 pm - 3.30 pm Presentation by Batch 2 teacher researchers
3.30 pm – 4 pm Concluding remarks (Where to, from here?)
4 pm onwards Distribution of Certificates and Tea

About the keynote Speaker

Dr Richard Smith is Professor of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics

at the University of Warwick, UK, where he has taught and supervised research by
MA TESOL and PhD students for the last 22 years. He has also set up and worked as
academic coordinator of British Council teacher-research mentoring programmes
in Latin America (the Champion Teachers programme) and South Asia (the Action
Research Mentoring Scheme, in India and Nepal). Well-known for developing the
Exploratory Action Research approach to teacher development and for his work in
the field of teacher-research mentor training, his publications include Voices of
Experience: Teaching in Low-resource Classrooms (2016), A Handbook for
Exploratory Action Research (2018) and Mentoring Teachers to Research Their
Classrooms: A Practical Handbook (2020), as well as research articles and books in
the fields of learner and teacher autonomy, and history of language learning and
teaching.