Engin Aytekin

Dear All,

The day I got the mail including the information about the “Shape The Way We Teach English” course I quite knew that it would be the opportunity that I have been longing for so long in order to keep me fresh in my work life and I should definitely not miss it. Like so many teachers participating the program I could benefit from such a great training in terms of expanding my knowledge, developing my teaching skills and catching up with the recent teaching techniques and methods being used in modern classes around the world.

The course was so professionally planned that it indeed worked far more than I expected it to be. Although it is only the fifth week I have made a good progress and had so many changes. Thanks to the program I have had the greatest chance to fulfill my incompetent sides that I sometimes come across in my classes. I can also say it help me enlarge my vision of teaching and learning English.

Today, I can easily monitor that my students are much more confident and effective in the lessons being a lot more creative and critical, taking more responsibility in their own learning process. The classes have become like daily meetings for the students in which they work together in groups and have fun focusing on the meaning further than structures of the language. I certainly believe that there are a lot more to be discovered in the ELT life with the support of “Shape The Way We Teach English” course.

Thank you very much for providing us with such a wonderful program.

Engin Aytekin
Afyonkarahisar
Kocatepe University

Additional pictures: the first picture, ı am in the lesson and teaching, and the second one ı am lecturing my colleagues about what have learnt in the last modules with Ilyas.

The other pictures are consisted of my students who prepared a project about homeless children in the streets. At the end of their presentation of the project as a part of it they collected some money from their friends and teachers to donate Çocuk Esirgeme Kurumu in Afyon.