4th GENÇLİK COLLEGE ELT SEMINAR

Miles Drawmer

Miles Drawmer has been teaching English and working in TFL for over fifteen years. He has experience teaching all age groups from young learners to high school. Although he started his career teaching English in South America, he has been living and teaching in Turkey for ten years. He has a particular interest in developing activities that encourage meaningful student production. Since joining İnkaş, Express Education and Trinity College London, he has presented and provided seminars and teacher-training programs to campuses of all kinds across Turkey.

Mohand Henry Fadl

Mohand Henry Fadl’s higher education started at the University of Birmingham, the Faculty of English language and literature. He gained his M.A in “English for young Learners”. Starting his work experience in Mexico followed by Poland dealing with university students, he decided to focus his efforts to serve the language in Turkey.

In 2000, Henry started to realize the importance of motivation and self-help in one’s life, thus he moved to the U.S and worked for about 3 years for Tony ROBBINS foundation, and was awarded and certified by ROBBINS in (Life Mastery, Wealth Mastery and Date with Destiny) as a self-coach In 2009, he was also trained by Sri Bhagavan a phenomenon Indian guru in India who’s the founder of oneness University for three weeks in 2013 he did that to step forward and develop his perspective towards his life’ journey. Dr. Fadl started his Ph.D. at the University of York and finalized his studies, thesis of his doctorate in 2012 from Florida University on “Education and Philosophy”.

He has been a trainer for Pearson education & publishing for more than 5 years.

Henry is an English teacher, a teacher trainer, an editor and a writer. Though, he has been teaching English for more than sixteen years he never hesitated to explore and experience various fields in learning and teaching. He never rests.

His motto is “Be Prolific, Gulp Life” which was once said by Pablo Picasso and he definitely encourages you to be a life gulper.

Merve Oflaz

Merve Oflaz has been involved in teaching since 1998 and has experience of working with students at all ages including young learners, teenagers and adults. She is currently an instructor at Dogus University Preparatory School. She is also a teacher trainer, a materials developer and a blogger. She has an M.A. in TEFL and holds the ICELT. She has written articles and given talks at local and international conferences. She has awards for her work in directing children’s plays, creating lesson activities and blogging. Her interests include learning styles, brain dominance, intercultural awareness and parent training. She shares her experiences about teaching on her blog.

Laura Woodward

Laura Woodward has been a teacher and teacher trainer for more years than she cares to remember! She has taught students and trained teachers in London, Thailand, Laos, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Tunisia.

She worked at the British Council, Istanbul for seven years as the teacher training manager where she coordinated and delivered courses for schools and universities both in the private and state sector. After two years in the United Arab Emirates she returned to Turkey and worked as the teacher training manager at British Side English Language School in Istanbul.
Nowadays she is working as a freelance teacher training consultant.

Her interests are: teacher education, the practical applications of Multiple Intelligences and NLP in ELT, lifelong learning, young learners, very young learners, differentiated learning, the use of drama techniques in ELT, assessment, the role of music and song in learning, CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults). These days she is still trying to make sense of Web tools, and ways of removing the damage to her waistline caused by excessive ‘chocolate’ moments!