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Published Article by İlke Menekşe Gerede-Hoyland
İlke Menekşe Gerede-Hoyland, one of our preparatory program instructors, has recently published an article titled “EFL Learners and EFL Teaching in Turkey: Native English-Speaking Teachers’ Perspectives” in the latest...
Reflections on Instructional Rounds Observation by Adam Rackham, Sinem Altuğ and Tibet Elmalık
As per City, Elmore, Fiarman, and Teitel (2009), instructional rounds provide a structured approach for educators to collaborate and enhance their teaching. The practice combines three common elements of...
Team Teaching Journey by Nazlı Hazar, Özge Özgen, Eugene Giovanelli
Team teaching has been around for years, and it is used to enhance learning and teaching in many fields of education. There are different types of team teaching defined...
REFLECTIONS ON OUR TEAM TEACHING EXPERIENCE by ROBERT M. SPODEN & ÖZLEM BAYKAN
Believing in the fact that teaching is a learning process both for learners and teachers, we wanted to pool our skills, experience, and efforts to increase the effectiveness of...
BLOG-ID 19: CAN IT BE THE MAGICAL PANACEA IN TEACHING AND LEARNING DURING COVID TIMES? by Petek Şirin
Covid-19 has dramatically affected the trajectory of teaching and learning. In a matter of weeks, traditional in-person classroom was expected to leave its place to new learning modalities. But,...
Cambridge Assessment English Webinar:Assessing Reading and Listening online
Tuesday 09 June 2020 09:30 (UK Time) Thursday 11 June 2020 16:00 (UK Time) REGISTER * Please join with Chrome or Firefox browser After the event, you will receive...
How to Navigate in an EFL Class with Just Pen and Paper? by Özge Özgen
We are pleased to inform you that one of our prep instructors, Özge Özgen, shared her ideas regarding how to navigate in an EFL class with just pen and...
British Council-Going Global 2020: Social Distancing Edition
Due to the ongoing situation with Covid-19, the British Council had to cancel this year’s Going Global conference which was due to take place on 29 – 30 June...
Cambridge Assessment English Webinar: Assessing Speaking online
Assessing Speaking online Tuesday 26 May 2020 09:30 (UK Time) Thursday 28 May 2020 14:00 (UK Time) REGISTER * Please join with Chrome or Firefox browser After the event,...
Cambridge English Webinar: Getting started with teaching English online
In this webinar the basics of how to transfer English teaching skills to an online context will be covered by Oliver Woods and Helen Allen. Wednesday, 8 April 2020...