Fadile Özgür

I graduated from Middle East Technical University from the department of Foreign Language Education in 2003. I have been awarded as a bachelor degree with honor grade in Teaching English. I have been teaching English as a second language since 2003. In the first three years, I worked in private schools then I started in public schools subsidized by Turkish Ministry of Education. I have a great passion for teaching English language and in particular, imparting my knowledge onto others through effective teaching methods. I can obviously say that, teaching makes me more creative and constructive since I have an opportunity to build a generation consisting of critical thinkers and problem solvers.
One of my most effective methods I apply in my classes is the Communicative Language Teaching Method. This is where I will teach the English Language based on the types of situations my students will find themselves in. I find this to be highly effective because the students can then put into practice what they have learnt once they leave the classroom. Moreover, I take into account multiple intelligence approach whilst I am preparing my lesson plans and techniques I will implement during the class. This makes my classrooms more active, energetic and appealing. That is to say, I apply a variety of preferences and intelligences during a lesson by integrating different methods. I also try to be a facilitator rather than just an instructor in the class. Therefore, I often create an environment in which my students are more active and participate in the lessons without any fear of making mistakes.