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Where I\u2019m Going in 2013<\/b><\/p>\nWhere I\u2019m Going in 2013<\/b><\/p>\n
Human beings love making resolutions, especially at the beginning of the new year, but how many of those resolutions are focused on professional development?\u00a0 If you\u2019re like me, your New Year\u2019s resolutions are probably focused on your personal life, but take a moment as I have done to think about where you want to be in your professional development at the end of 2013. Here\u2019s where I\u2019m headed.<\/p>\n
Learn, Share, Change. \u00a0<\/b>These words are at the top of my list for 2013. \u00a0As a teacher, I feel \u00a0have a \u00a0responsibility to share what I have and exchange ideas and maybe change together and change the world in a better way and maybe as Stephen Krashen says, we can make the world a better place immediately? As we are teachers, I believe that we have that power, to change the world with small but strong touches on people\u2019s lives. Because of all these reasons, my number one is learn,share and change. I will never stop learning from others, learning and sharing what I learned with others and do little changes in education world.<\/p>\n
Expand The Community\u00a0 <\/b>Recently, a teacher friend of mine asked, \u00a0\u2018\u2019Why are we sharing our knowledge with teachers who are already in our communiity? It is like a circle. We must reach out to others who are not already in our community and give them motivation and courage, too. \u00a0That\u2019s collaboration. Otherwise we\u2019re just passing things around the same circle all the time.\u201d \u00a0She\u2019s right. There are lots of great educators from all over the world who need our support. We need to reach out to them. Why not today? Why not you ?\u00a0 All you need to do is to believe in yourself and take some action. By doing so, we can make our community bigger and bigger day by day and truly collaborate. \u00a0It\u2019s in our hands.I feel that I have the courage and motivation to do this and if you are reading this blog post and involved in iTDi, it means that you have the same couage and motivation as well! Let\u2019s start now and work together to help others outside of our current community.<\/p>\n
Unplugged vs Connected <\/b>\u00a0I\u2019d always felt that I have to use \u00a0as much technology as possible until I attended a teacher training workshop called\u00a0 Unplugged and Connected : Where Ideas Meet<\/i> led by Luke Medding and Burcu Akyol. On the second day of the course, a fellow participant shared something a students of hers had said: \u00a0\u201cI am not here to learn technology. I\u2019m here to learn English.\u201d Those words had a huge impact on me. Yes, we should use technology but there are other great ways to teach English. Teaching unplugged is one of them. It is communicative, engaging, and fun at the same time. Technology is just a tool — not the whole part of our teaching life. This year, I will make the most out of technology but I will try to be more unplugged as well.<\/p>\n
The Things That Could Be Better List <\/b>\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m again the organizer of The Istanbul Bilgi University ELT Students Conference<\/i> which will be held in Istanbul on March 9th and 10th this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>This year’s focus is\u00a0on Outliers in ELT, and I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about how to make this year\u2019s conference even better.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been thinking about this since the moment that last year\u2019s conference ended. That very day, I sat down and started writing a reflection on what had gone well and what hadn\u2019t gone so well. \u00a0As soon as I started writing, I began to see things that could have been done better, and so I created a list of those things. \u00a0I\u2019ve been refering to this things that could be better<\/i> list as I prepare for this year\u2019s conference and it\u2019s been helping me a lot.\u00a0 Now I\u2019ve decided to create a similar list at the end of each of my teaching days this year. As soon as I get home, I\u2019ll think about what I did well, what I did wrong, and what things could be done better. I\u2019m sure this list to help me better see where I am and where I want to be.<\/p>\n Perhaps you\u2019d like to join me? Even if you\u2019re in a very good place now, there are always things that could be better.\u00a0 Let\u2019s reflect, learn, share, and change together and end this year in an even better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where I\u2019m Going in 2013 Human beings love making resolutions, especially at the beginning of the new year, but how many of those resolutions are focused on professional development?\u00a0 If you\u2019re like me, your New Year\u2019s resolutions are probably focused on your personal life, but take a moment as I have done to think about … Continue reading Professional Goals for 2013 – Sevim<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-goals-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"SEVIM](\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/SEVIM-IMAGE-1-300x225.jpg\")
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