British Council Learning Technologies Course

As we come to the end of the British Council Learning Technologies for the Classroom Course, our teachers are busy finishing their coursework. Good luck to everyone - your are doing a fantastic job :)

Gareth Rees Seminar - The Value and Use of Communication and Collaboration in English Language Teaching

On 18 April, Longman Pearson and Berberoglu Bookshop sponsored a presentation by Gareth Rees on the Value and Use of Communication and Collaboration in English Language Teaching. Gareth discussed the skills of communication and collaboration within the 21st Century classroom and the role of this within a wider educational setting.

Gareth Rees works at the University of the Arts London, and is currently Course Leader for EAP Overseas, and Course Leader for Cultural Awareness and Inter-cultural Communication. He is the co-author on the Language Leader series (Pearson) and writes for the BBC Learning English website.

CEFR and testing workshops

Nurcan Garip held 2 workshops on CEFR and testing for test writers in MLD on Monday, April 9th. During the workshop, Nurcan gave information on the CEFR and participants analysed their test specifications. Outcomes on what needs to be worked on will be shared with teachers, and worked on during the summer. Many thanks to Nurcan for her putting together these workshops, and sharing her expertise. Thank you to all who attended.

SFL shares experience and expertise on CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for languages) at the Ministry of Education

On Friday, 23 March 2012, SFL Assitant Director, Cigdem Tuncergil and SFL Curriculum Development Committee (CDC) Chair Pembe Nurcan Garip gave a seminar on CEFR at the Ministry of Education. State school teachers who are going to work on the committee responsible for aligning the English curriculum to CEFR in primary, secondary and vocational school education attended the seminar. In the seminar, Cigdem and Nurcan shared SFL experiences in revising the General English and Academic English programmes based on CEFR. Chief inspector Berna Yılmazoğlu Özdoğa thanked everyone for attending the seminar but especially SFL representatives and SFL for sharing their knowledge and experiences as well as for agreeing to help them as consultants whenever they need support.

Academic Partnership

As part of the Professional Development Working Group, we would like to get your views and opinions on a new project - Academic Partnership.

What is Academic Partnership?  

It is a partnership which involves YOU to …
    •    enhance your professional development,
    •    explore  new ideas, theories and people,
    •    gain a new and fresh outlook on your teaching,
    •    have an opportunity to learn about your colleagues  and
    •    expand your circle of networking.

In order to introduce and help guide you into this new project, can you please:

    1)    First look at the related PowerPoint presentation. (prepared by Nadiran and Nurcan, see below).
    2)    Fill in the questionnaire at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H2DP6KY by Monday March, 26th.

We would like to thank you all in advance for taking the time to answer this questionnaire. We believe it’s important to get your valuable feedback and insights so that we can better provide for your needs in an academic setting.

Thank you,
Professional Development Working Group

Academic partnership

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SFL EPS Representation @ Youth Workshop

Last month Filiz Bodi, represented the SFL EPS at a 2 day Youth Workshop in Girne. The workshop was jointly organised by Turkey and the Northern Cyprus Ministry for National Education, Youth & Sports and the Directorate of Youth & Sports. The main theme of the workshop was Opportunities in/for Higher Education. Workshops included Youth Infrastructure, The Social Life of Youth, Health, Sports and Environment, Ethics and Human Values and Democratic Awareness and Participation in Democracy.

Digitalising Learning with the British Council

We are proud to announce that the British Council, Cyprus have selected the SFL EPS Students' Self Study Centre for their Digitalising Learning Project. Over the next few months, we will be working in collaboration with the British Council to train teachers on how to use the latest language learning technology.