From August 2025 to January 2026, NETRUZ ran an online course “NETRUZ EAR and Mentor Training Course 2025” for school teachers, university teachers, and teacher educators. This course was for those who wanted to solve their teaching issues through exploratory action research. NETRUZ also wanted to train future mentors who can organise teacher-research training courses at their institutions.
64 teachers from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan were
trained and mentored by fourteen NETRUZ mentors. Below you can see the wonderful
NETRUZ mentors involved in this round of training and mentoring.
The training course involved a total of 15 training sessions. The mentors developed the training programme and materials for each
session. The training materials were based on the Handbook of Exploratory
Action Research by Richard Smith and Paula Rebolledo and Mentoring
Teachers to Research Their Classrooms: A Practical Handbook by Richard
Smith. These materials and the programme are made available to trained teacher-researchers to
support them in organising teacher-research training courses at their institutions.
On January 31, 2026, NETRUZ organised the Teacher-Research Celebration online event to share the successes of 22 teacher-researchers. During the event, they shared their insightful research projects on a range of topics, including inclusivity in ELT, ESP/EAP issues, language skills improvement, pre-service teacher education, and the effective use of technology and AI in ELT.
You can watch the event now to learn about their
wonderful projects. Also, check out the poster presentations prepared by these wonderful champion teachers from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan: