Badges in the 2023 - 2024 Academic Year

What do 'stars' mean?

One-star badge: The instructor decides on the process of the PD project, takes the initial steps for preparation and implements the subsequent procedure till it is successfully finalized.

Two-star badge: All the above, the instructor submits a written reflection on the impact of his/her PD.

Three-star badge: Including all the above, the instructor shows proof that other colleagues have benefited from this professional experience.

You can have a look at the detailed rubric.

Below, you discover a wide variety of badges representing a wide-variety of accomplishments. Please click on the badges below to see the descriptions - what the instructors have achieved through their PD projects.

1. Reflection

1.1. Constructive Friends Group

1.2. Conducting Teacher Research

1.3. Character Strengths and Teacher Well-being: Classroom Reflections

1.4. Teaching Methods: A Reflective Journey

2. Methods of Teaching

2.1. Educational Technologies for Language Teachers

2.2. Gamification for Language Teachers

2.3. Teaching Toolkit

2.4. Teaching Grammar Communicatively

2.5. Exploring Effective Writing Instruction

2.6. Enhancing Student Interaction

2.7. Raising Students' Awareness of their Recurring Mistakes

3. Assessment and Retention

3.1 Mentoring Project

3. 2 Addressing the Needs of Newcomers to the ENG 101 Course

• Annamaria Lapira
• Bahşende Yardibi
• Çiğdem Stevens
• Filiz Kaya
• Pelin Kuyum
• Meltem Aktaş
• Menekşe Gökçen
• Müge Gençoğlan
• Semra Hasegeli
• Tuğçe Erkmen

• Didem Seçer
• Dr. Kamer Öztin

Catherine Baydar

Yeşim Günseli Cehiz

• Beatrice Yavaşer
• Funda Yeşilyurt

Here is the list of
the badge earners.

• Akkadin Çankaya
• Buket Kasalı
• Charles Riddell
• Doğan Tosun
• Elif Boduroğlu
• Friday Longwe
• Funda Yesilyurt
• Hülya Eser
• Idil Kırıkkaya
• Necan Saygaç
• Nihat Derebaşoğlu
• Nilay Gezgin
• Nilcan Yavuz Sekkin
• Özlem Evans
• Sarah Metzker Erdemir
• Taisha Azqueta
• Tim Evans

• Emrah Geniş
• Pelin Çetinün

• Armağan Kırışman
• Deniz Pektaş
• Gülfem Akdoğan
• Fahriye Nur Demirel

• Pamela McArtur Yalçuk
• Monique Gümüş
• Massimiliano Damiani
• Beatrice Yavaşer

Michelle Keskin

• Altun Arıkan
• Asiye Yalçıner
• Beyza Yüce
• Ceyhun Ergin
• Deniz Atılgan
• Ebru Çetindağ
• Esin Yüksel
• Ester Mazliah
• Figen Öztepe
• Gizem Korkmaz
• Gülgün Gökçeler
• Gülşah Gürer
• Ilgın Türe
• Meltem Akçora
• Nur Demirel
• Seher Kosacı
• Sibel Sezer
• Şebnem Ergizler

• Emrah Geniş
• Dilge Yılmaz

Nil Akpınar