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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sühendan Er organized a seminar on “Sharenting” for Başkent Teacher Training Workshop series on November 25, 2020. Social media platforms that invade our lives and the shares of the photos of children on those platforms are discussed on the basis of children’s rights. Besides, the responsibilities of teachers on awakening the awareness among parents on the issue is argued.

Res. Ass. Bünyamin Atay organized a seminar on “Procrastination: A Shield against the Our Inner Fears and Possible Ways of the Solution” for Başkent Teacher Training Workshop series on November 30, 2020. In the first section of the seminar, the importance of time, the prevalence of procrastination and the role of procrastination in protecting us from confronting our inner fears had been explored. Then, several concrete steps which have the potential to solve the procrastination had been discussed.

One of the faculty members at the department of English Language Education, Asst. Prof. Dr. Pelin Irgin’s article with Prof. Dr. Ismail Hakki Erten, entitled “Exploring the role of strategy instruction: Young learners’ listening performance and strategy use”, has been published in the latest volume of Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, an ESCI-indexed journal. Dr. Irgin’s article also meets the criteria for TEDU Academic Publication Awards.

Within the framework of our university's community services, our faculty member Dr. Elif Öztürk’s seminar titled "Effective Teacher Skills" was held with 40 participants consisting of teachers and teacher candidates. In the seminar, the professional and personal skills required to be an effective teacher were discussed and experiences were shared. Thanks to all participants, a productive seminar was held by sharing various suggestions and practices on providing effective online teaching as well.

On Thursday, December 26, with the participation of the teacher, branch manager and head of department, who are staff members of the MoNE Board of Education and Discipline, Department of Electronic Education Contents; on Friday, December 27, with the participation of teachers and school administrators in Başkent Teacher Workshops, Dr. E.

Within the framework of our University's community services efforts, on Saturday, November 28, 2020, Dr. Zerrin Toker and Ress. Assist. Gizem Güzeller presented "Big Ideas for Teaching: What Will I Do To Learn This?"named seminars were held with the participation of teachers and school administrators.

As part of “Research Methods (EDUC 204)” course offered by Assist. Prof. Dr. Münevver İLGÜN DİBEK, different scenarios are given to groups of the students to make them understand the subject of sampling methods. Accordingly, the students saw themselves as a real researcher and selected participants from among the hypothetical people for their research. These scenarios were discussed at the end of the lesson and the relevant topic was made more understandable for the students.