As an extension of Teaching and Learning Development Unit at Ozyegin University School of Languages (ScOLa), this website is a reflection of our ongoing love for teaching and learning. As life-long learners and English language teaching professionals, we believe in continuous professional development (CPD) sharing & caring.
Date & Time: Tuesday 27 October 2020 – 14:00
Follow the link for further information and registration
Eaquals Online is a two-day online event which showcases and shares the knowledge and expertise of the Eaquals membership.
Eaquals Online looks at areas of Crisis Management, Pastoral Care in times of crisis, Teaching & Learning Online and finishes with “Looking Forward” into the future of international education. These are addressed through plenary sessions, presentations, case studies and panel discussions with something for all – academic managers, directors of studies, teacher trainers, language teachers, school directors.
The event takes place on the 23rd & 24th of October and is free and open to all, both members and non-members.
23rd October:
24th October:
This webinar uses findings from an ELTRA funded research project focusing on the use of technology-enhanced learning. In the webinar, a number of tools and procedures are presented with the aim of helping English language teachers to reflect on and improve their practice. In particular, I will use an app (SETTVEO) to demonstrate how professional development is enhanced when reflections are evidence-based by giving teachers something to reflect on and something to reflect with. Using findings from the ELTRA project, I suggest that the use of self-observation, with data and accompanied by some kind of dialogue, can promote up-close and detailed understandings of teaching and learning.
Date: 21 Oct 2020 – 14:00
Dear all,
please find this week’s news and updates below:
1.Common Time Professional Development Sessions
2. Common Time Student Development Sessions
This week Mohammad Khari will deliver a session entitled “How to be an effective online learner” as a part of our Common Time Student Development Sessions. The students who attend the session will also receive a SEC 101 credit. Could you please inform your students about the session details and share the below zoom link so that the interested students can attend?
Session Title: How to be an effective online learner
Language: English
Date & Time: October 20 at 14.45
Zoom link: https://ozyegin-edu-tr.zoom.us/j/99216824163?pwd=YzRZc0kyNzhjMWp3bkNoQkZnTjhxZz09
Meeting ID: 992 1682 4163
Passcode: 795092
3. ScOLa Projects
Last week, we completed the second step of the project registration and our students made their choices about the sections they wanted to attend. The ones who did not choose a section have been placed into available sections and have been informed about it.
You can see the number of students who will be attending the project classes in each level:
A2: 130 students
B1: 251 students
B2: 138 students
We are glad to get the interest of a great number of students.
This week project classes are starting as of Monday.
The project instructors will be contacting their students about their first sessions this week.
Dear all,
Please find this week’s news and updates below:
1.Common Time Professional Development Sessions
This week two of our session series start. Below you can find the detailed info about their first sessions.
2. CONNECTIONS_ BONDING and RELATIONS Session 1
Session intro video: https://prezi.com/v/hdttpuzpcm_e/neuroscience-and-pedagogy-i/
2. Common Time Student Development Sessions
This semester, we will have our student development sessions every Tuesday afternoon. This week, Şafak Çelik will be delivering a session on technology we use during the online education period for the students who need extra support in using the tools. It is going to be a Q&A session; therefore, could you please direct your students who have questions regarding this issue?
Below you can find the relevant info and the poster that could be shared with the students:
Technology Session by Şafak Çelik
Session Title: Technology Orientation – Q&A (Turkish & English
Date & Time: October 13 at 15.45
Zoom link:
https://ozyegin-edu-tr.zoom.us/j/97050950931?pwd=OUJ0ZDRKS3d6VlZRZUg5MFdKSHo4dz09
Meeting ID: 970 5095 0931
Passcode: 306152
3. Projects
The students were informed about the projects in all levels last week through in-class presentations.
Our students can benefit from further reminders about the deadlines below:
Step 1: Registration – This ends today (Monday) at 16:30.
Step 2: Choosing a section – from Wednesday afternoon (14.10.2020) till 16:30 on Thursday (15.10.2020)
Important Note: They CANNOT choose a section in step 2 if they do not complete step 1 (register for the project by the end of today)
Wish you all a nice and smooth new week!
The benefits of students working collaboratively are well documented, but how often do we, as educators, apply these methods in exam classes? Besides using examples from the Open World series, this workshop will open up exam teaching through mobile and student generated materials for use inside and outside the classroom, putting learners at the heart of the collaborative experience.
Date & Time:
| Wednesday 7 October 2020 15:00 (UK time) |
Dear all,
Welcome back 🙂
We hope you all had a nice holiday, effective prep days and are ready for the upcoming academic year. We’d like to share this academic year’s first highlights:
1. Nergis Uyan’s Welcome Meeting with the Students
Nergis Uyan, ScOLa Director, will be meeting with the students this week to welcome them. Below you can find the schedule.
| Level | Date | Time |
| A2 | 09.10-Friday | 14.00 |
| B1 | 07.10-Wednesday | 11.00
12.45 |
| B2 | 08.10-Thursday | 14.00 |
2. Common Time Professional Development Sessions
This semester, we will continue having developmental sessions during our common time. In addition to the individual sessions, we will have 3 different series of sessions. Detailed abstracts will be shared in the weeks that the sessions will be delivered. Below you can find the calendar and the abstract documents.
3.ScOLa Study Center
This year we will continue providing extra support to our Prep students in the areas that they need additional individual support. We will also have Speaking Practice Slots when the students can have a chance to chat with our native speaker instructors. You can direct your students who seek that type of support to the available slots in the Study Center.
Based on the positive feedback we received during Spring and Summer semesters, we will use the same online appointment platform to ease both our students’ and our Study Center instructors’ job. Below you can see the schedule of the available slots and the appointment links of our instructors. Could you please share this poster with your students so that they can have the necessary links to make appointments?
Study Center Fall Semester Poster
4. ScOLa Clubs
This semester we will be running two clubs, one focusing on writing named “Creative Writing Club” by Sinem Altuğ and one focusing on speaking named “English through unique Turkish Artists” by Feraye Turan Pir. The clubs start as of week 2 and they will be held every Tuesday. The posters with the necessary info (date-time-zoom link) will be shared next Monday.
5. Project Classes
This year, ScOLa will be able to provide project classes in all three levels. Zeliha Aydın and Selda Macunlar will be running A2 Project; Ezgi Öner, Selma Tamdoğan Çalışkan and İlknur Sarıoğlu will be running B1 Project; and Tuğba Yıldırım and Mohammad Khari will be running B2 Project.
Instructors are going to give presentations on A2, B1 & B2 Project classes to their students this week. Students will register for the Project classes this week and next week through LMS, and the lessons will start in week 3 of the Fall Semester.
6. Birthdays
We wish all of us a smooth new semester,
Best,
TLDU
Wherever you teach, we’re with you. Let’s get together with our ELT experts for tips and advice on managing the challenges we are facing today. Learn about topics like:
You choose the sessions you want to join – we know you’re busy so we’re running ELT Together over four weeks so you can join us when you have time. There’s something for everyone, with a balance of professional development and wellbeing tips!
Join any session and receive a certificate of attendance and free professional development resources.
View the full programme and find out how to register.
For teachers of Teenagers or Young Adults
Clearly we are all living through turbulent times. Old ways of doing things are being moved aside for the “new normal”- which is also constantly changing. Strong emotions can arise such as anger, frustration, sadness and anxiety. So how can we best equip ourselves for this new reality as teachers? And how can we help both ourselves and our students stay present, in this ever-changing landscape?
In this hour-long session we will explore how we can turn towards those challenging moments using practical tools that allow us to be more compassionate when difficult emotions arise. We’ll explore what stress is, how it affects us and what we can do to nurture a sense of calm in the classroom. Just pausing and asking ourselves what is good in this moment can be a starting point…
4 September 2020
10:00 AM Europe/London
4 September 2020
03:00 PM Europe/London
Emma Reynolds is an accredited Mindfulness teacher for adults (MBSR- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) and for children through MiSP (Mindfulness in Schools Project UK). She gives talks and workshops on Emotional Intelligence and Mindfulness in the classroom at schools and also at teachers’ conferences including APAC and ELT, Barcelona. She has written two articles for MacMillan on Mindfulness in schools and is happy to be back again offering webinars aimed at teachers of teenage students. Originally from the UK, she has lived in Spain for over 20 years.
Whichever back-to-school scenario language learners are facing, they will almost certainly have fewer opportunities to engage in meaningful language use during class time, making it more important than ever for them to be effective independent learners. Yet simply setting independent learning activities is not enough and it is the teaching strategies that we use in-class to set up independent learning tasks that are key to facilitating learner independence.
How can we set up asynchronous, or out-of class, learning activities so that they truly foster learner independence? Join us to find out.
31 August 2020
03:00 PM Europe/London
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Mark has been working in ELT since 2000 as a teacher, teacher trainer, DOS, materials writer and now academic consultant. He holds the CertTESOL and DipTESOL from Trinity, and a degree from the University of Birmingham. His areas of interest include teaching with minimal resources, and blended learning.
