Esen Metin-Olmuscelik

My reflections:

I joined the ‘Shaping the Way We Teach’ on-line course with the expectations of expanding my knowledge on various aspects of teaching through exchanging views and experiences with colleagues coming from different settings so that I can provide better assistance both to my students and colleagues. Up to now, besides gaining new insights on teaching via articles and videos, we have exchanged opinions on various class activities, management and assessment techniques, etc. Sharing our actual classroom practices with the group is really beneficial as learning about such experiences provides us with new ideas or strengthen our views on different issues. Exchanging the problems and questions through discussion threads also make us think critically to find out working solutions. Though this is a hectic term for me and this on-line course is quite demanding, I am glad to be involved in such a program as I have been refreshing up my teaching and gaining a lot. I am also planning to use the ideas I get here in my course project so that I can have the chance to apply what I am attaining. I would like to thank the course moderator and the participants for realizing my expectations.

Esen Metin-Olmuscelik
Çankaya University, Ankara