Skills
Teacher training and development in ICT
Virtual learning envirnoments
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Corpus-based language instruction
Experience
Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus
September 2011 - October 2011
Instructor in the School of Foreign Languages, Modern Languages Programme.
The English School of Kyrenia
January 2009 - January 2010
Joined the school as a part-time teacher in ICT, with a mandate to apply a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) approach, working with the other subject matter teachers in Key Stage 3.
Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus
January 2008 - October 2011
Courses taught (part-time instructor): EFL252 - Instructional Principles, EFL413 - Language Testing and Assessment, CTE319 - Instructional Technology and Materials Development
Middle East Technical University, North Cyprus Campus
January 2008 - January 2010
I am a part-time instructor at the English Language Teaching department. I have taught an introductory course to EFL Methodology (EFL252), the Instructional Technologies and Materials Development course (CTE319) and the Language Assessment and Evaluation course (EFL413)
theconsultants-e
January 2008 - January 2010
Prepared materials, storyboards and video scripts for in-service online teacher training delivered in MOODLE.
Lexitronics
January 2007 - October 2011
Lexitronics is a research group that focuses on teaching and learning vocabulary, and explores ways of promoting productive use of lexis in a corpus-informed approach. Lexitronics was short-listed for the 2009 British Council ELTons innovation in EFL award in the international category for research. Have participated as a tutor on numerous workshops on Web2.0 technologies and EFL at Eastern Mediterranean University and Middle East Technical University in Cyprus and Turkey. Was a tutor on the Pearson Summer Courses on Learning Technologies and Web2.0 in 2008 and 2009, with course director, Kristina Smith. Was also a tutor at the Hornby Summer School in Moscow, 2008, with course director Gavin Dudeney. In 2009 I was a moderator for the Cyprus cohort taking the British Council LearningTechnologies online course. In 2010 I was co-moderator with Graeme Nelson on the British Council emoderator online course.
Middle East Technical University
January 2005 - January 2007
Taught in the English Preparatory School of the School of Foreign Languages, METU, North Cyprus Campus.
Workplace personality

100+
Company Size

12
Day Length

25+
Team Size

Loud
Noise Level

Formal
Dress Code