THE PICNIC IN INCEKUM

İncekum Municipality organized an enjoyable picnic for the teachers working in Incekum Town. Mr. Fahri Baysal, the mayor of the town, celebrated all teachers' day and gave them cloves.

CK Training Center meets at dinner

Mr. Cemal Karataş, the owner of CK Private Training Center gave dinner at Iskele Sofrası Restaurant in Alanya Harbour for the employed teachers. Mr. Karataş celebrated the Teacher's Day of the participated teachers.

Tablet PCs at Schools???

Normally I should undoubtedly support the technological supplies at schools which aim to change teaching strategies and students' awareness for technological developments. However it is a fact that one can not get the benefits of the technological devices unless he has the culture of its. That is what we face in Turkey as we don't know in which conditions and for which purposes they are produced, we buy and try to use those devices. We buy the newest and the most expensive one even if we can use only a simple function of it just because we entirely focus on consuming. Hereby I don't think it will be fruitful for our education system since we don't actually know the importance of the devices which are being given to all of the students and teachers in Turkey.

Let me tell you an example which supports my claim. Some students in Kocaeli Province of Turkey sold the tablets given to them by the Ministry of Education. This example shows that we are still at the very beginning of the road.

In spite of this, I still see a glimmer of hope if we manage to teach how, why, where and when to use that technology, The students will be educated about te culture of it and they are going to be ready to adopt the new technology for their lessons.

Teachers dies in Van Earthquake

There was an eartquake measured as 7.2 in Van Province and Erciş District of Turkey on 23rd October 2011 and unfortunately more than 500 people died some lost and more than 4000 people injured. According to the report which the Ministry of Education announced there are more than 90 teachers who died in the earthquake just because they were mostly in a Cafe to have a rest and meet each other as it was weekend and they had just gone out from a Conference, caused a big sorrow in the education community. Forebears of education, headed to the ground one by one. As a result, the Academic year had been delayed till the 14th November, Monday in Van but after the second earthquake which happened in Van Lake and Edremit District measured as 5.7 three days ago, the cancellation has been extended by the Ministry of Education.

"I hope God have mercy on those who died in the Earthquake and patience for their families."

Promoting the Trip to London

We have organised an exhibition at the school paper corner to promote our trip to London, England between 12 to 18 October. We have exhibit the documents and video records we have collected in England and it was very helpful for our students to be informed about London and English culture. Students have asked questions about the trip and the ones who joined the trip have answered the questions. The exhibition has lasted all day long and almost all the students and teachers have visited it.