GENERAL INFORMATION

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Registration 09:00 - 10:20 Welcoming remarks 10:20 - 10:35 Concurrent Workshops- 1 10:35 - 11:25 Coffee Break 11:25 - 11:45 Concurrent Workshops- 2 11:45 - 12:45 Lunch Break 12:45 - 13:30 Concurrent Workshops- 313:30 - 14:20 Coffee Break 14:20 - 14:30 PLENARY 14:30 - 15:20

PRIZE DRAW** 15:20 -15:30 Service Bus departure 15:40

**This year there will be Media Markt gift tokens awarded as prizes. Visit every stand and have your ticket stamped. Completed tickets will be put into the draw and the selected winners will receive a gift token.

Türk Millî Eğitimine hizmette 37. yılını kutlayan

bir sivil toplum örgütü olan Millî Eğitim Vakfı,

eğitim ihtiyaçlarının karşılanmasında, devletçe

ayrılan kaynak ve hizmetleri desteklemekte,

insanların bağış ve katkılarını bir çatı altında

toplayarak eğitimin hizmetine sunmaktadır.

Eğitim yükünün paylaşımında üstlendiği

sorumlulukla okullar, öğretmenevleri, öğrenci yurtları, sosyal tesisler yaptırmakta ve

donatmaktadır.

Millî Eğitim Vakfı’nın ilk özel okul girişimi olan MEV Koleji Özel Güzelbahçe Anadolu Lisesi, MEV

Özel Avni Akyol Lisesi adıyla 1991 yılında kapılarını eğitim ve öğretime açmıştır.

MEV Koleji Özel Güzelbahçe Okulları eğitim ve

öğretim programlarını Okul Öncesi, İlkokul, Ortaokul, Anadolu Lisesi ve Fen Lisesi

bölümlerinde sürdürmektedir.

Millî Eğitim Vakfı’nın İstanbul ve Ankara’da

kurduğu özel okulları bulunmaktadır.

PLENARY ABSTRACT Andy Cowle- Black Cat / UES A Young Person Who Reads Becomes an Adult Who Thinks!

Students will tell you that they don’t like reading, but this is simply not true. On social media and through instant messaging students are reading (and writing) all the time – more than any other generation before them. They do not think of this as reading. Moreover, they are following engaging narratives about people, and responding to what they read on various important cognitive, emotional and social levels. Our classroom practices must and can be adapted now to connect with this very positive reality.

So, if we introduce reading which is easy, in contexts learners understand and enjoy, they will be more motivated and can develop essential life skills alongside natural, meaningful language development. After all, in the real world, we read for pleasure or communication not for tests! We also read to better ourselves, to define and redefine our values by exploring the lives and cultures of others. In short, to get students reading by themselves in English, the content must be relevant, easy, much more frequent and compelling.

In this presentation we will therefore look at effective ways to introduce and exploit graded fiction and non-fiction to develop reading skills, language acquisition and self-reflection in our learners. We will look at stories, characters and themes that create practical and enjoyable experiences, as well as classroom and self-study activities, but we need to encourage and develop a reading habit to see the benefits. This presentation will therefore demonstrate that extensive reading in ELT is not a supplementary option ‘for those who like reading’ or ‘for which there is no time or money’. It is a vital and central part of any ELT syllabus, parallel to (sometimes instead of) traditional grammar teaching, bringing considerable language learning results.

CONCURRENT SESSION ABSTRACTS WORKSHOP SELECTIONS WILL BE MADE AT THE REGISTRATION DESKS. PLEASE STATE YOUR PREFERENCES THEN.

Laura Moulton- Cambridge ‘What’s in the box?’ Creativity and Critical Thinking

In this session we will discover why, even if you think you are not a very creative or artistic person, you can still bring a dynamic, creative and inspiring energy to your classroom and your teaching. Along the way, we’ll discover why creativity is crucial to developing critical thinking skills, and look at some activities that will help you to develop this more effectively in the classroom. Tuğba Yıldırım- Global Testing Feedback and Evaluation in the Classroom

This workshop focuses on two of the most important questions ESL teachers face worldwide are: how to give effective feedback and enhance learning and avoid discouragement; how to evaluate student performance according to pre-defined, clear lesson goals. 4 corners activity – thinking about “assessment” and “evaluation” in the classroom. • Discussing different types of assessment • Giving students task-specific feedback to reach lesson goals (using peer / self-evaluation tools effectively) • Creating task-specific scoring guides adaptive to different language domains. • Summary John Barth- Express Busy Mouths, Hands & Minds: Motivate, Surprise and Energize Your Students With Fun Icebreakers and Activities.

Icebreakers are an essential ingredient of our teaching. While students develop their English skills, icebreakers also reflect active learning principles while addressing affective and social aspects of language learning. Let's experience the unexpected benefits of taking your students outside of their typical comfort zones by cultivating a positive, safe and engaging environment in which to play, explore and be free to make mistakes. Be prepared! This is a hands-on, high participation seminar. We're going to play! Naz Gürpınar- Benan Demir - GLOBED Feed-forward; Taking a Step Back From Differentiation

Student journey is the hearth of instruction. Ongoing assessment is what helps us touch each student’s learning process. However, why cannot we let go of the students’ previous achievements or failures? Let’s leave the past in the past and improve our students by considering their future developments.

Feed-forward is an expansive and dynamic response, which provides suggestions about what can be done next in an ongoing manner, in the future of students’ learning. But can we enhance student engagement and take differentiation to the next level by giving feed-forward? Teresa Doğuelli- Macmillan Co-ordinate the Brain and the Body- Brain Gym for Life

Brain gym is a developmental movement programme established by Dr Paul E. Dennison and his wife Gail Dennison and is a series of 26 simple physical exercises designed to help people co-ordinate their brains and their bodies. This holistic approach to better learning also enables students to find an equilibrium between both sides of the brain and body, thereby achieving an “integrated” state, and as a result learning and behaving with increased focus, calm and mastery. It can be used on a regular basis with classes of all ages, become a tool for life-long learning for anyone, as well as helping individual learners with specific blocks or learning difficulties that may be negatively affecting their success, behaviour or self-image. This practical presentation will introduce teachers to a selection of Brain Gym exercises and explain how they might work and for whom. Gülsüm Şıvgın Baş - National Geographic Theatre; The Curtain Opens for ELT Stage, drama, acting all integrated into ELT and voilà you have a brand-new world! As language teachers, it is part of our being to act, to imagine and to create impossible scenes to be able to teach language in context. Up to here all is good and well but what happens when you have students who think they are not ‘talented’ enough, so they never take part? What is talent anyway? Let’s explore expectations and experiences on how to run a theatre club with ESL students. E.BETUL AKSAKAL - Oxford Improving Skills Through Games

Students always seem to be asking for games, which means teachers seem to constantly be in need of new ones. Is this your situation? If you could use new ways to stimulate your students this workshop could be what you’ve been searching for. After actively taking part in this session, attendees will be able to start using these games immediately in their own classrooms. These games have been used with students of different ages, can be adapted to any level or theme, and are guaranteed to keep your learners busy and happy. Ülkühan Demir - Oxford More Than Words

Vocabulary acquisition needs to be more meaningful than just memorization if the words are to ‘stick’. Theory plus fun activities are played out in this presentation to help students not only remember but really know the meaning and use of words. Nick Manthei - Oxford Students as Teachers

In the classroom we want to challenge our students, make them learn quickly and have it stay in their memory. What better way to do it than have them be in control of the lesson? The student in front of the class will learn more when they teach. The students in the class suddenly become very interested in the material because their friend is teaching them. The teacher gets a chance to step-back and observe all the students. From 2nd grade to high school I have had many positive experiences using my students as teachers, and I want to share how you can do it too. Alethea Simatos - Oxford Talking Pictures

Whatever our teaching style and context may be, whatever the learner profile in our classroom is, whether we are teaching skills, vocabulary or grammar, we all have times when we need to get our learners talking. In this session, we will look at practical activities that use pictures to engage our students’ interest, help them generate ideas, and support their language production.

Grant Kempton- Pearson

YOU Are The Class!

Nothing exists in a vacuum. Everything is connected. The reason why a particular activity is very

rarely purely down to the kids in class is behaving. 99% of the time it's much more complex than that.

As teachers we need to be able to reflect on every lesson and identify exactly why something doesn't

work or why one particular class is difficult and be able to deal with that. And much of the time, it starts

with us. Because we are the class and the class is us. Come and find out what I mean and how we go

about diagnosing and treating things that go wrong.

Brian John Degitz- Pearson

Speaking and Reading - Beyond Sentences "Beyon-se".

In order to connect the speaking and reading skills in enjoyable, more natural ways we must

evaluate how we approach teaching and pre-teaching reading. Furthermore, how do we remove the

un-enjoyable, robotic reading and allow students to understand and put emotion back into the

words. Using these methods and routines will create enjoyable, meaningful lessons for students and

teachers alike. Andy Cowle- Black Cat / UES A Young Person Who Reads Becomes an Adult Who Thinks!

In this workshop, we will look at effective ways to introduce and exploit graded fiction and non-fiction to develop reading skills, language acquisition and self-reflection in our learners.

BIOS ANDY COWLE- Black Cat/ UES

Starting out as a graduate of German and English Linguistics and an English language teacher in Germany and the UK, Andy has worked in ELT publishing and training globally for 30 years, operating in almost 40 countries. Passionate about creative ELT materials and motivating teaching professionals, Andy is known for enthusiastic and practical talks, encouraging teachers to try new ideas, and connecting language learning with the real world. Andy was born and grew up near Liverpool, England, and now lives in Glasgow with his family, dog and guitar. He is loves travel, film and good wine. Preferably all at the same time! www.eltconnections.com Laura Moulton- Cambridge/ TEAS

Teacher Trainer/Educational Consultant for Cambridge University Press, Turkey, Laura Moulton has been a teacher since early 2000 and a teacher trainer since 2004. She was a Trinity Cert TESOL trainer in the Czech Republic for five years, and has worked as an in-service teacher trainer since 2007.She completed her DELTA in 2005. Delivering training to KG, Primary, Secondary, University and Language School teachers, she has developed and delivered scores of workshops and training sessions at schools, universities and conferences in Prague and all over Turkey. Topics have included Phonology, Learner Autonomy, Developing Critical Thinking Skills, Reading Strategies for Young Learners, Using Literature in the Classroom, CLIL in the EFL classroom, Material-free, Student-Centred Teaching, Cultural Dimensions in EFL, as well as many structure- and skills-focussed sessions. ETS Global- Tuğba Yıldırım

Tuğba Yıldırım works as a freelance teacher trainer and EFL Consultant for private institutions. She is also responsible for delivery of TOEFL Primary and Junior workshops for the TOEFL Young Student Series® tests.

Tuğba has a Bachelors degree in English Language and Literature from Ege University and an English Teaching Certificate from the Education Faculty of the same university. She has been trained as teacher trainer in ETS Princeton, NJ, USA in October 2016. She has been in many European Union Projects since she was a teenager, and currently she is a steering group member of IMPACT, a EU project which aims to create a European Teachers web, and to train teachers to uplift the quality of education in participant European countries and beyond.

She taught academic English to students, ranging from children to adults, in a variety of institutions in İzmir and Bursa, Turkey for nine years. Before being a freelancer, she had been the Director of Foreign Languages JOHN BARTH- Express

John began his teaching career in western Canada in 1993. Across the Canadian and Turkish landscapes, his professional experience has been diverse: both city and rural settings, public and private institutions, from Kindergarten to college levels, multi-level classrooms to team teaching scenarios. He has taught subjects ranging from Visual Arts and Drama through History, Technology, Design Studies, English Literature and English-language teaching (EFL/ESL).

He was an early online consultant and regular contributor to Industry Canada’s Network of Innovative Schools (NIS), recognized for its supportive development of cross-curricular and technologically integrative approaches to education. In Canada, John appeared at national and local educational conferences, worked on various provincial and local program/curricular

initiatives, and further, he was nominated for and awarded recognition for best-teaching practices.

With his experience in ELT management, he joined the professional team at Inkaş A.Ş. after his final post as Head of Foreign Languages in İstanbul. Throughout his teaching career, John has been continuously involved in teacher-training initiatives, working as a Coordinator, mentor or program developer. He now serves as the Director of Academic Services, Senior Teacher Trainer and Program Consultant for school organizations of all types across Turkey. He presents dozens of seminars and workshops annually at national ELT Conferences and local school sites on behalf of Express Education and Trinity College London. Naz Gürpınar - GLOBED (JOINT PRESENTATION)

Born in Istanbul, Naz Gürpınar completed her college education at Hisar School in 2010 and moved to London for her undergraduate studies. Graduating from King's College London in 2014 where she studied “International Politics”, she began her graduate studies in 2015 at the State University of New York and currently pursues a degree on "Interdisciplinary Studies". Naz Gürpınar, a College Board certified "Comparative Government and Politics" trainer, also served for the Turkish Permanent Mission at the United Nations in New York.

Upon completion of her duties at Doğuş Entertainment DREAM in 2014, between 2015-2017, Naz Gürpınar worked as the International Projects Coordinator at Hisar School and managed the Advanced Placement program. As of June 2017, she is working for GLOBED E-Learning Solutions. Benan Demir - GLOBED

Benan Demir is an English Teacher and Academic Director at GLOBED which introduces top quality educational resources from around the world to international, private and public schools in Turkey and neighbouring countries. She is in charge of supporting educators to integrate e-learning solutions to improve student achievement by providing guidelines for teachers/instructors, organizing educational content and developing curriculum alignments.

Born in Germany in 1990, Benan Demir, began her education life in Turkey. After graduating with honors from Hacettepe University with a degree in English Language and Literature, she earned her English Teaching Certificate from the Faculty of Education at Hacettepe University and she also holds TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate. She started her professional teaching career at Bahçeşehir Schools as an English Teacher and also took part in developing curriculum and classroom materials for language teaching.

Currently, she studies a Master Degree in Educational Administration and Planning at Bahçeşehir University.

Teresa Doğuelli- Macmillan Teresa Doğuelli has been a teacher and trainer since 1976 - teaching adults,

teenagers and children; teachers, teacher trainers, ELT inspectors and parents. She has been living and working in and from Turkey since 1979 and a full-time teacher trainer for Macmillan, Southern Europe, since 2012. She has a DTEFLA and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading. Gülsüm Şıvgın Baş – National Geographic

Born in 1984, Mrs Gülsüm Şıvgın Baş, graduated from Güzelyalı Primary School in İzmir, then went to London and to continue her studies. During her stay in the U.K., she went to Grey Court High School and Richmond upon Thames College. She conducted her university education at Gazi University on Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Continuing on to her profession she has worked at Ankara Maya Private Primary School and is currently working at Gelişim College. Since she started her career, she has taken active part in INGED as a Board Member and as a teacher trainer for the British Council since 2010. Ever since the beginning of her teaching life in 2007 she always took part in theatre, writing plays and running a show on stage. Alethea Simatos Talking Pictures Oxford

Alethea Simatos is a Teacher Trainer and Education Coordinator with Macenta Publishing & Digital Solutions. Originally from New Zealand, Alethea has been in the English Language Teaching sector in Turkey for 17 years, first as a teacher and administrator, and then in professional development and materials development for the last six years, five of them with Oxford University Press. Alethea’s areas of interest are learner motivation, learner autonomy, continuing professional development (CPD) and creative teaching Nick Manthei- OXFORD Nick Manthei has been a freelance teacher trainer for Oxford University Press for the past five years. He has taught every age group from children to adults, and his area of expertise is primary and middle school classrooms. He loves teaching school children and having them teach him. Currently he is completing his Master’s in International Education with a specialization in ESL teaching. Nick has taught in Istanbul for seven years and in Izmir for three years. He has given numerous seminars, webinars, workshops and plenaries on a wide range of topics. His biggest pride is his volunteer work as an English advisor for summer educational programs at government schools in Samsun, Kars, Manisa and Kosovo. Nick likes his sessions to be interactive and focuses on activities you can use in the classroom the very next day. Betül Aksakal- Oxford

Betül Aksakal completed her schooling in Melbourne, Australia and has taught in Turkey for over 15 years. In addition to her extensive experience, she has written comprehension questions for over 150 readers, given numerous workshops on games in the classroom, making the most of books in the classroom, vocabulary teaching, and using readers while focusing on thinking skills in primary school. She is currently responsible for the Marmara region of Istanbul as an Educational Consultant for Oxford University Press, Turkey.

Ülkühan Demir - Oxford

Ülkühan Demir holds a degree in English Language Teaching from Anadolu University, recently received a Trainer Development Certificate from Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE), and spent her early education divided between Istanbul and New York City. Before joining Oxford University Press as an educational consultant in 2012, she worked as an English teacher in several primary and secondary language schools. With OUP she has worked in different capacities, including closely with kindergartens for two years, supporting resource needs, designing programs, and giving trainings, demo lessons and parent seminars.

For one and half years she coverered much of the Mediterranean region - Antalya, Denizli, Burdur and Isparta - mainly dealing with private K-12 institutions, state schools, and universities. Since August, 2016 she has been responsible for the European side of Istanbul, specializing in storytelling and teaching English through games and songs. Her main areas of interest are bilingual education (she is a full Turkish-English bilingual), teaching English to (very) young learners, project-based learning, and teacher education. She has a strong fondness for horses, loves designer bags, and supports Fenerbahçe Football Club. Grant Kempton- Pearson

Grant Kempton has been involved in ELT for more than 28 years. During that time he has been a teacher, tester, curriculum coordinator, school director and teacher trainer. From 2000-2006 he was the global teacher trainer for Pearson Education and travelled the world training teachers. He received his MA in ELT from Reading University. Since 2006 he has been working as an Educational Consultant and has worked as such both inside and outside of Turkey with K12 schools, universities, ELT organisations and ministries of education. He is also an ELT writer, being involved in such courses as Language Leader, Opportunities, New Success and New Total English. Areas of Speciality: 21st Century Skills Leaner centrism versus Teacher centrism The 21st century revolution in education Syllabus and Curriculum design and renewal Assessment Classroom Management Teacher roles Change Management ELT Management Brian John Degitz- PEARSON

Brian John Degitz started teaching in 2005 as a percussion instructor in Macon, Georgia in the southern United States. After 3 years of teaching percussion, he became an assistant band director, teaching elementary, middle, and high school music. In 2009, he taught Music and English in Bavaria, Germany before returning to the United States for a final year of music and Mathematics. In 2011, he became certified to teach ESL and moved to China, teaching Pre-K-High school and tourism English and TOEFL at Wenzhou Normal University.

In 2012, he moved to Turkey where he has taught all levels of English as well as coordination for an international school system for 4 years which involved working in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Botswana in a program that adapted STEM for ESL students. While working in these countries, he trained local teachers how to utilize the methods for themselves in order to continue the programs at other schools. He has also been directly involved in the writing and creation of curriculum alongside the Ministry of Education in Botswana, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Turkey. In the past 2 years, he has begun concentrating on training teachers in methodology, techniques, ESL, TOEFL, classroom management, STEM, and creative writing. In his free time, Brian likes to play Türk Sanat Muziği with a chorus and orchestra. He also enjoys traveling with his wife of 3.5 years.

CONFERENCE CONTACT INFORMATION

Tel: 0 232 234 28 88 (Ext:198)

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REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION Please send your school details and teachers’ names BEFORE 17:00hrs on Thursday 14th December by filling in the e-registration form. On the day of the conference, please pick up your conference materials from the registration and information desks before you proceed to the conference hall for the morning opening plenary session. The English Language conference will be held in the main building conference hall (capacity 370)

Please make your concurrent session preferences known at registration.

TRANSPORTATION

Service busses will be provided to and from the conference. When filling in the

registration form on-line, you can state your preferences as to pick up point, route and

boarding times. Busses will depart from campus at 15:30.

ROUTE PICK UP POINTS DEPARTURE TIMES

Mavişehir / Alsancak

Mavişehir EGS Park 08:30

Bostanlı İskele Durağı 08:50

Girne Yunuslar 08:55

Karşıyaka İskele (Anıt Önü) 09:00

Alsancak

Alsancak Gar 09:25

Alsancak Sevinç Pastanesi 09:35

Cumhuriyet Meydanı Telekom 09:40

Buca/ Konak/ Mihtatpaşa (Sahil Yolu Üzeri)

Buca Hasanağa Bahçesi

(Üçkuyular kapısı)

08:45

Belediye Önü 08:55

Konak YKM 09:10

Mithatpaşa Mithatpaşa Lisesi Önü 09:15

Göztepe Vapur İskelesi 09:30

Bornova

Bornova - merkez

Özkanlar

Garanti Bankası 09:00

Migros 09:10

Manavkuyu Pehlivanoğlu 09:20

Hatay/ Üçkuyular

Hatay Üçyol (Metro İstasyonu) 09:00

Nokta Nokta Durağı 09:10

Amerikan Lisesi Amerikan Lisesi Durağı 09:20

Poligon Poligon Durağı (Eski BP) 09:25

Üçkuyular Pazar yeri Otobüs Durakları 09:35

Gaziemir

Gaziemir Kipa 08:45

Askeri Ulaştırma 08:50

Semt Garajı 09:00

HELP AND ASSISTANCE The teachers and pupils of MEV Koleji Özel Güzelbahçe Okulları have volunteered to assist our guests. They will be available to help all conference participants throughout the day.

CATERING Free tea, coffee and light snacks will be served on the second and third floors all day long. The dining room, where lunch will be served, is on the ground floor.

COCKTAIL AND PRIZE DRAW MEV Koleji Özel Güzelbahçe Okulları invite you to a cocktail reception, which will be held in the main building, where you can chill out and socialize after your day of academic presentations. The prize draw will take place after the final plenary session. The lucky guests will take home some resource books and surprise gifts provided by our sponsors.

CERTIFICATES OF PARTICIPATION All conference participants will be given a certificate of attendance. Your participation certificates can be obtained from the Certificate Desk during the cocktail.

FEEDBACK FORMS We would be grateful to receive your feedback. Please remember to fill in the feedback sheets. Please hand them in at the Certificate Desk. Thank you for taking the time to help us improve future conferences.

PROGRAM CHANGES AND CANCELLATIONS Please note that all program changes and cancellations (if any) will be posted on this web site.

GENERAL

Smoking is not allowed in any of the campus buildings. MEV Koleji Özel Güzelbahçe Okulları are not responsible for any

loss or damage of personal property or accidents that may take place during the conference.