During the Olympics I will not be able to do any lessons in the class as we started our summer holiday but there will be friends around the world that they will have classes while the GAMES are happening. You can find some ideas and printables from the following links Eslflow English for games Create…
We are about to end another academic year. In some ways it was fruitful and in other ways, I had some disappointments. Some students did very well. Some, however, were happy with their moderate improvement. Every year I ask students to write feedback twice. One two months later we meet and one at the end…
You can see some student examples from here and also from the links of my class blogs. You can download the handout.
I’m looking forward to being at Yeditepe University this weekend. I’m sure it will be a great event. If you have already seen the speaker list, you will understand what I mean. I will be one of the British Council Roving reporters so if you are there and if you happen to bump into me,…
Finally we hosted our partner schools in Istanbul. My school was very glad to have this opportunity. We, the language department teachers worked very hard yet we enjoyed and learned a lot. On the first day, after the short tour in the school, we gathered in the conference hall and presented ‘What Comenius means to…
Well, I’ve already learned the answer but I want to continue with this title. May is a wonderful month. It is warm, sunny and energetic and we are lucky beacuse the 3rd meeting of our project ‘The Magic of Reading, The Power of Reading’ is going to be held in Istanbul this week. We, the…
I’m so much exhausted these days. There are many thing at school that we have to do. Our Comenius partners visit us next week. Actually it is very exciting to plan everything. We have to deal with arrivals, presentations, meetings, day tips, etc. We are even planning a Europe Day celebration on May 9th. I’m…
I will be at Boğaziçi University tomorrow for the Third Elt Students’ conference. Unfortunately I’ve missed todays sessions as I had to be at school for Teacher-Parent meeting. I’m looking forward to being there tomorrow as it is organised by a group of ELT students from Bilgi and Boğaziçi University. As far as I follow,…
I’ve been thinking about the change. We are all talking about the digital natives but I think I’ve just met them. The ones I graduated from high school last year, the previous years were just the pioneers and now I have to deal with the real ones. If we really know them, we can guide…
I always supported the idea that if a teacher is willing, eager and motivated, sooner or later the most demotivated students will respond but unfortunately this year I realised that a teacher, no matter how idealistic, eager, motivated she is needs some leader students who will help her to make others want to learn….
This time two weeks ago I was in Glasgow. I was both excited and nervous as this would be my first presentation at IATEFL. Although I had presented at many conferences in the past three years, just after stepping into blogging, twitter and social media, yet IATEFL was something else. A dream, a last stop,…
Sessions I attended My session was on 22nd of March. It was a part of the Technology and Teens symposium. I was a bit stressed but it all went very well and we all received very positive feedbacks from the participants which made all of us very happy. It was a great feeling when one…
