In today's episode Melinda Karaca (your host) will be interviewing Thea Paftaluta about her internship experience in Istanbul, Turkiye.

Thea Paftaluta, is a second year student at ITESS (International Teachers Education for Secondary Schools) majoring in the subject field of history. During this episode she will tell us about what her internship experience was like, what she thought about Istanbul, what she learned and many other valuable experiences that have brought her to the person and teacher she is today.

Thank you Thea Paftaluta for sharing your experiences and thank you all for listening.

In today's episode Melinda Karaca (your host) will be interviewing Briley Habib and her two students about a project that they conducted at The British International School.

Briley Habib is a Geography teacher at The British International School in Istanbul. Within her Geography classes she has conducted a special project about migration. What it means to be a immigrant? What is migration? What role does migration take within international schools? and many other questions are being discussed within this special episode. Not only does the teacher (Briley Habib) share this but she has also asked two of her students to participate within this episode.

Thank you Briley Habib and thank you all for listening.

In today's episode Melinda Karaca (your host) will be interviewing professor Tuncer Can.

Associate professor Tuncer Can is a university lecturer and coordinator at Istanbul university in Turkiye. He has completed both his bachelors and PHD degrees at Istanbul university specializing in Teaching English as a second or foreign language. Additionally, he has been a lecturer at Syracuse university in New York teaching the Turkish language. Now he is involved in many different beneficial projects within the field of education. Today Melinda Karaca will talk with this special guest about interesting topics regarding the education system within Turkiye. 

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In today's episode your host (Melinda Karaca) will talk to Renske Zuurveen.

Renske Zuurveen is a specialist in productivity, learning strategies, psychology, and behavioural change. 

She has completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Groningen. Which she later followed up with a Master of Science in psychology and law at Maastricht university.

She helps you to create your unique habits that boost your productivity.  Therefore, she interested in changing bad habits and finding your unique way of studying in order to become more productive. 

In this episode she will talk about productivity, motivation and other important elements of life.

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Today's episode will be part of a new serie that will take place within this podcast. After having three episodes completed by your host (Melinda Karaca), there will be a takeover episode done by someone else.

Hannah Rasmussen, a third year student at ITEPS (International Teachers Education For Primary Schools), will be discussing cultural identity from a personal perspective.

Hannah grew up partly in Denmark and Belgium. Once she graduated so moved around between Switzerland, Denmark and the Netherlands. With all the international experiences she always encountered the same identity questions of who she was, what nationalities she belonged to and what she defined herself as culturally.

These identity questions can be common in international classrooms and insightful for educators to be aware of.

Hannah summarises key points of what students may go through and what educators can do to embrace and support it.

I (Melinda Karaca) was very lucky to have her for this takeover episode and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

Thank you Hannah and thank you all for listening.

In today's episode your host (Melinda Karaca) will talk to Elke van Dermijnsbrugge.

Elke van Dermijnsbrugge is a lecturer, researcher and academic coordinator at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. She is interested in alternative research methods (in education) and in the application of utopian and speculative thinking.

She has completed masters in Germanic Languages and educational leadership and additionally completed a doctor of philosophy at The University College in London. She has taught and lived in different places around the globe.

In this episode she will talk about different ways of conducting research, about her international experiences and many other inspiring topics.

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In today's episode your Host (Melinda Karaca) will speak to Leonardo Gomez. Leonardo Gomez is a teacher, course and curriculum designer, course and content creator, educator, and ELT consultant with extensive international experience. 

He has a background in teaching for over than 23 years and has completed his bachelor’s degree in foreign languages and literature in Brazil. Additionally, he has completed a master’s degree in teaching English as a foreign language and corpus linguistics at Birmingham University. He currently works at Seneca college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as a sessional professor in the English language institute. 

Today he is here with me to share some of his experience about teaching, creating curriculum and more. 

Leonardo Gomez has his own podcast, https://www.learnyourenglish.net/podcast

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In today's episode Melinda Karaca (your host) will be interviewing Ruth Pringle about an alternative English language school in Scotland.

Ruth Pringle is a principal language coach and the course coordinator of Blue Noun. Blue Noun is a Scotland based language Hub which gives online services to artists, designers makers and creative thinkers to get fluent in spoken English. Ruth Pringle is an English language coach for creatives and for other professionals. She has received her graduate certificate in Art History and completed a fine art degree. 

She has an history in being an artist, making art and communicating by art in all contexts. Therefore, she teaches the English language in a creative communicative way. Previously she has spent 3 years in Brussels and 7 years in Paris teaching English to both university classes at a private language school.

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In today's episode Melinda Karaca (your host) will be talking with Melanie (a third year student at ITEPS) about how it is to be starting a new school year. There will be some tips and pieces of advice given in this episode. This episode is especially dedicated to incoming students this year. We hope it will give you an idea of how it is to be starting with ITESS or ITEPS.

If you have any questions about anything feel free to reach out to one of us or the ITE team.

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Today's episode will be part of a new serie that will take place within this podcast. After having three episodes completed by your host (Melinda Karaca), there will be a takeover episode done by someone else.

For this episode Melanie Köhler, a student from ITEPS (International Teachers Education for Primary Schools) will discuss the topic of home.

Melanie Kohler grew up in Germany and went to school there. Once she graduated she went to the United States of America. Afterwards she started to study ITEPS in The Netherlands. Currently she completed her second year and will be going to her third year.

She completed two internships abroad and as explained above she lived in different countries. This means she has lots of different insights and experiences to share with all of you listening.

I (Melinda Karaca) was very lucky to have her for this takeover episode and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

Thank you Mel and thank you all for listening.