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 * Abdullah ARAS 1734508**

**Reflection on Yüce College**

“7th Foreign Language Teachers’ Conference” was organized by Yüce College on 17th March, 2012, and it was a good chance for foreign me as a future teacher of English. I am able to participate in half of the conference and experienced lots of different thing in the sessions given by Dr. Anna Maria Pinter, Deborah Blaz, Meghan Beler, and Patrick Shortt and firstly, I want to write about my experiences and talk about my thoughts on the session given by Dr. Anna Maria Pinter, who is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, in United Kingdom. The aim of the session was to inform the english teachers about differentiated learning, learner strategies and learner autonomy. The session also included some innovative practical activities that can be applied in language classrooms. During the session, the teachers could experience those activities, giving them the chance to reflect on their benefits in terms of promoting differentiated learning. I really liked them and will use these activities in my lessons when I become a teacher. The second presenter was Deborah Blaz. She mentioned about some strategies necessary for differentiating the classroom. She also explained the ways of choosing correct kind of activities according to the levels and interests of the students. The third presenter was Meghan Beler and she mentioned about mainly multiple intelligences like musical, spatial, verbal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, etc. A teacher should use these intelligences in the activities and choose activities that include more than one intelligence at a time. The final speaker was Patrick Shortt and he talked about the necessity of using emotional intelligences in the activities. In my opinion, this conference is very useful for us, because we have both experienced lots of different activities and learned how to use them in the classroom environment. I have also learned that, we should choose activities that contains more than one multiple intelligences because, every student are different from each other in terms of intelligences, so they need see the correct activity for their own intelligence.  “7th Foreign Language Teachers’ Conference” was organized by Yüce College on 17th March, 2012, and it was a good chance for foreign me as a future teacher of English. I am able to participate in half of the conference and experienced lots of different thing in the sessions given by Dr. Anna Maria Pinter, Deborah Blaz, Meghan Beler, and Patrick Shortt and firstly, I want to write about my experiences and talk about my thoughts on the session given by Dr. Anna Maria Pinter, who is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, in United Kingdom. The aim of the session was to inform the english teachers about differentiated learning, learner strategies and learner autonomy. The session also included some innovative practical activities that can be applied in language classrooms. During the session, the teachers could experience those activities, giving them the chance to reflect on their benefits in terms of promoting differentiated learning. I really liked them and will use these activities in my lessons when I become a teacher. The second presenter was Deborah Blaz. She mentioned about some strategies necessary for differentiating the classroom. She also explained the ways of choosing correct kind of activities according to the levels and interests of the students. The third presenter was Meghan Beler and she mentioned about mainly multiple intelligences like musical, spatial, verbal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, etc. A teacher should use these intelligences in the activities and choose activities that include more than one intelligence at a time. The final speaker was Patrick Shortt and he talked about the necessity of using emotional intelligences in the activities. In my opinion, this conference is very useful for us, because we have both experienced lots of different activities and learned how to use them in the classroom environment. I have also learned that, we should choose activities that contains more than one multiple intelligences because, every student are different from each other in terms of intelligences, so they need see the correct activity for their own intelligence.