SDG4-1 Evidence 1

Faculty of Educational Sciences

Please provide one piece of evidence to demonstrate. Evidence can include policy documents, reports, publicity materials, guides, timetable of services or similar. (You can only upload a maximum of three evidence items in total per question)

• LEGO Education Teacher Conference (BAUSTEM): 23 November 2019

Organized in collaboration with Bahçeşehir University BAUSTEM and Teknokta, this conference was held under the theme "Design the Tomorrow with Confidence." It began with presentations and continued with panels and workshops. The conference gave participants the opportunity to discuss the lifelong learning journey that starts in childhood and to re-experience the learning process by learning by doing in workshops.

LEGO Education Teacher Conference 2019
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Organized in collaboration with Bahçeşehir University BAUSTEM Center and Teknokta,the 4th LEGO® Education Teacher Conferencewas held on Saturday, 23 November 2019, at Bahçeşehir University South Campus under the theme "Design Tomorrow with Confidence!"

Prof. Dr. Derin Atay, Dean of the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Educational Sciences, opened the conference with a talk titled "Creativity and the Role of the Educator."

Next, LEGO Master Builder Yoshihito Isogawa, author of The LEGO® Technic Idea Book, The LEGO® Mindstorms EV3 and many other books, gave a presentation titled "My Approach to Enhancing Children's Creativity."

Following the speeches by Teknokta Founder Fatma Bezek, LEGO Education Middle East and Africa Partner Sales Manager Josh Graham, and Tuncay Morkoç, Head of the Early Childhood Department at the Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Basic Education, the program continued with the panel "The Role of Basic Education in the Lifelong Learning Journey," featuring distinguished experts in the field.

Panelists Prof. Dr. Belma Tuğrul, Assist. Prof. Dr. Menekşe Boz, Assist. Prof. Dr. Serap Sevimli Çelik and Cevat Ayna discussed the learning journey that begins in childhood and continues throughout life. The panel concluded the first half of the conference, and the workshops began after the lunch break.

https://www.ogretmenkonferansi.com/

In the workshops led by Yoshihito Isogawa, Prof. Dr. Belma Tuğrul, LEGO® Education Türkiye Academy teachers, the Science Heroes Association, and Dr. Defne Yabaş and Hayriye Sinem Boyacı from the BAUSTEM team, teachers had the opportunity to re-experience the learning process by learning by doing. The conference ended with the conclusion of the workshops.

• Education Forum K12 (Appendix-20)

In collaboration with Bahçeşehir University, the Sustainable Education Development and Excellence Association (SEGM) and the Share the Future Civil Initiative (GP) held a conference on 30 November 2019 focusing on education policies, models, sustainability, people-centered approaches, and the perceptions and expectations of teachers and parents.

• IATEFL ReSIG Teachers Research Conference (8–9 June 2018):

The International Teachers Research Conference was held for the third time at Bahçeşehir University on 8–9 June 2018, bringing together researchers, teachers and prospective teachers from various countries. The primary goal of the conference was to bring together teacher-researchers from Türkiye and beyond to support the growing international movement of teachers as researchers and knowledge creators for themselves, their students and their schools. The conference was participant-centered, viewing teachers as being at the center of knowledge construction rather than as "receivers" of expert knowledge. This year's conference focused on the personal research experiences of EAP / ESP / ELT teachers and the challenges they face in practice, and the results of these studies were shared.

http://iateflresig2018istanbul.com/

• IATEFL ReSIG Teachers Research Conference (2–3 June 2017):

The annual conference of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) Research Special Interest Group (ReSIG) in Türkiye was held at Bahçeşehir University (BAU) for the second time. At the conference, the results of research on the conditions and challenges of being a student and a teacher were shared with an international audience. The conference, which included sessions, presentations and workshops, hosted distinguished participants from Türkiye and abroad.

https://bau.edu.tr/icerik/12114-koinferans-iatefl-research-sig

• International Conference on New Trends in Education (17–18 November 2017) (Appendix-21)

The 4th International Conference on New Trends in Education was held on 17–18 November 2017. The NTE conference series has been jointly hosted by Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Educational Sciences in collaboration with Ege University and Georgia State University; the theme of the 4th conference was Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). The conference aimed to provide a platform for academics, educators, researchers, leaders, visionaries and especially foreign language teachers from schools, universities, businesses, industries and other public and private institutions to share and discuss their innovative experiences, practices, research initiatives and outcomes. The conference addressed the practical aspects of theoretical perspectives and the connections of CLIL with every aspect of language teaching, making invaluable contributions to the field. More specifically, one of its main objectives was to bring together various research studies and workshops to contribute to the CLIL literature and to draw attention to the need for CLIL materials to guide both content and language teachers. The conference included a variety of sessions such as presentations, posters, workshops and panels, and was held in English. With more than 400 attendees, it was sponsored by six publishing companies and supported by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye). Over two days, there were 3 keynote sessions, 2 panels (authors' and academics' panels) and more than 20 concurrent presentations, poster sessions and workshops.

• Psychodrama Seminar (Appendix-22)

The seminar was hosted by the Faculty of Educational Sciences on 17 October 2017. It was open to students and professionals in the fields of Psychological Counseling and Guidance and Psychology in Istanbul, and was attended by 275 participants.

• International Istanbul Psychodrama Conference (26–27 May 2018 and May 2019) (Appendix-23)

Over the past two years, the Faculty has hosted two conferences organized in collaboration with the Istanbul Psychodrama Institute, in May 2018 and May 2019. Each conference was attended by more than 250 participants and featured talks on psychodrama and four workshops.

• MomTalks (4 May 2017)

The event was organized by our former faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bahar ERİŞ at Bahçeşehir University South Campus. It focused on aligning the traditional motherhood agenda with new-generation ideas and raising awareness that conscious families will change the world. To this end, the event hosted well-known public figures and celebrity mothers as speakers.

https://bau.edu.tr/icerik/11938-momtalksgelecek-anneden-baslar