Call for teacher research mentors

Dear English language teachers of Uzbekistan,

We are pleased to announce the opening of our call for mentors who would like to be trained and share the received knowledge with other teachers within a new project NETRUZ: Network of English  Teacher Researchers in Uzbekistan. 

The link of our project’s blog: https://netruz-project.blogspot.com/.

This project is funded by Hornby Trust and British Council. The main aims of this project are to develop the network for English language teacher-researchers and teacher research mentors, to train English language teacher-researchers and teacher research mentors, and allow teachers to share their best teaching and research practices.

If you would like to improve your research and mentoring skills and develop your collaborative and reflective learning through our workshops and regular meetings, you should JOIN our project and mentor training program now! This project offers the opportunity to experienced (over 2 years of teaching or research experience) teachers and practitioners to expand their knowledge and their research skills, and help to become professional research mentors.

• Are you interested in doing research, particularly classroom research? 

• Are you interested in finding solutions and improving your classroom practices? 

• Are you working in the educational sector and can spare a minimum of two hours every week (or more if you like) for training and mentorship? 

Send your contact details (email and phone number), your CV, and a brief cover letter (max. 150 words) outlining why you are interested in this project and how you as a mentor can benefit other teachers in terms of research and classroom practices to the following email: elyanoramenglieva@yahoo.com. 

Best wishes,

NETRUZ Core Trainers

Introducing the Core members of the Project: Inomiddin Imomov

Mr. Inomiddin Imomov is currently a Core trainer of ESN: STT program. He is from Ferghana, received a Bachelor's Degree in Education and Masters in Education from the University of World Languages. He is certified to teach English as a foreign language. This will be his fifth year at Avloni Research Institute after ten years at Tashkent State University of Law.

He has a true passion for working with our young learners and novice teachers!! Helping each student progress in all areas of their development—academic, social, language, and motor—is a challenge that he is honored to accept daily. He strives to create a community of learners and teachers that nurtures this growth in a positive, fun environment.

Personally, he has been married for 30 glorious years and has two fantastic children who are 9, and 7 years old and attend school. He loves to watch his kids' swim! He also enjoys reading, and spending time with friends and family.

He looks forward to working together with you as partners in your professional growth and development!!

Introducing the Core members of the Project: Nilufar Begibaeva

 

Mrs. Nilufar Begibaeva has been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 1994.

Nilufar’s current responsibilities in the position of the Head of Testing and Assessment Department are observing and evaluating the processes of teaching and learning and providing recommendations after that; assessing learners’ skills and working with trainer trainers.

She was announced as the best teacher by ACCELS (American Councils for International Education) in 2000 and in 2003. Since 2008 she has been a trainer of trainers in the Professional Development Center of Andijan State University. But she started a training activity in 2003 when Nilufar began to work as a DIPECHO Project Instructor (Mercy Corps International NGO) where she first developed modules of training and later trained “Rescue Group” members and “Young Rescuers” in communities, facilitated International and National contests of “Young Rescuers” and two International conferences in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.  The position of UNDP Administrator of the Resource Center in the Andijan region allowed her to improve her training skills greatly.   

In 2009 she received a Certificate of Appreciation from Ambassador of the USA in Uzbekistan Richard Norland in recognition for her outstanding contribution to mutual understanding and cooperation between the peoples of the USA and Uzbekistan.   Nilufar is an alumna of several programs of different countries such as the USA, UK, India, China, Malaysia, Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia. The most valuable thing in these programs and different positions she worked for is that in addition to skills and experience she gains Nilufar meets wonderful people and very grateful to have them in her life. She was also the Head of UzTEA (Uzbekistan Teachers of English Association) Andijan branch. Her motto is “Live and Learn” which is the reason why Nilufar tries to get knowledge wherever it is possible: School of Music, English Linguistics (MA), Russian Linguistics (MA), courses, training, conferences, and fellowships, etc.

In her free time, she likes reading video-books and being a beta-tester of the programs and games that her husband creates as a software developer.

Introducing the Core members of the Project: Menglieva Elyanora

 

Ms. Elyanora Menglieva is from Termez, Uzbekistan. She has a BA and MA from the Uzbek State World Languages University and was awarded a Hornby Trust Educational Scholarship to study for an MA in TESOL at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, in 2018. Ms. Menglieva has experience as an EFL teacher, a teacher-trainer, a curriculum developer. She has been working in local higher educational institutions: Uzbek State World Languages University, Tashkent State Law University, and Head Scientific and Methodological Center.

Ms. Menglieva has also been involved in prestigious international research projects with both the Erasmus Plus and the British Council. In 2020, she received Hornby Trust Alumni Award to develop a Handbook on Formative Assessment Practices, which aims to improve the current assessment practices of EFL teachers. Ms. Menglieva is interested in a range of teaching and learning issues, namely corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, pedagogies in ELT, ESP, EAP, materials development, teacher research.