Dear all,

You can find the news and updates for this week below:

1. Forum Update:

As part of the events series organized in Özyeğin University to celebrate the 15th year of its foundation and 100th year of the foundation of the Republic of Türkiye, we are organizing a 1-day forum entitled “A journey from Retrospective to Prospective”.  The aim of this event is to create a platform where experts in specific areas in English Language Teaching in Turkish Higher Education context can share their expertise to brainstorm future practices in the light of current state.

Upon our previous post in June, we formed an organizing committee and we have been working on planning and organizing our event since August. Below you can find the members of the Forum Organisation Committee:

Nergis Uyan, Esra Çelik Soydan, Canan Şaban, Selen Şirin, Sultan Zeydan, Serkan Aras, Özlem Baykan, Kübra Uğurlu, Işıl Özdemir, Betül Selcan Şentürk, Özlem Kaplan Snyder, Kezban Altuntaş Özben, Mehtap Hepsevil, Bahar Hasırcı, and Aylin Yurtsever.

 

As the organizing committee, we are very pleased to share with you further details of our event.  This will be a one-day forum to be held face-to-face on November 3, 2023 and the aim is to explore the historical development and evaluate the current state of English language provision in Turkish Higher Education to propose future-oriented solutions to current issues in language teaching.  The forum participants will be working in small groups in the areas of Management, Program Development and Assessment, Teacher Training, Teaching and External Stakeholders. It will be a closed group event consisting of invited participants who will share their expertise in the related areas.

Since we are the host institution, we would like to open the plenary session in the morning and the debriefing session in the afternoon to all ScOLa faculty.  If you would like to attend these sessions at the specified time on that day, please inform esra.celik@ozyegin.edu.tr by the end of  26.10.2023-Thursday.

 

 

2. Student Strand:

i. Halloween Door Decorating Competition 

Please be reminded that the deadline for the competition is this Friday (27 October).

 

 

 

ii. Student Development Sessions: 

We have our first live student development session by Gurbet Kabadayı this week. The session details have been shared with the students via LMS-Extra Curricular page and the posters on the hallways. Accordingly,

for A2 and B1 students: 24 October, Tuesday (14:45-15:35) in ScOLa 110

for B2 students : 26 October, Thursday (14:45-15:35) in ScOLa 110

Please encourage your students to attend this session.