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Personal Details Full Name: Steven Richard Darn Home and Work Address  +90 - 232 - 279 15 66Tel. (mobile): +90 - 539 866 26 44 UK Contact Address Education and Qualifications 1992 British Council Izmir. Cambridge/RSA Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (DTEFLA). Current Position(s) Freelance ELT consultant. Clients include the Koc Consortium, Istanbul, The British Council, Pearson Educational Publishing and Oxford University Press. Teacher Trainer and ELT Consultant, Oxford Teachers Academy. Teacher Trainer, Trainer-Trainer and ELT Consultant for the British Council, Turkey. Academic Editor, Asian ESP Journal. Previous English Language Teaching Posts 11.03 - 08.07 Instructor, Teacher Trainer and Trainer-Trainer, Izmir University of Economics, School of Foreign Languages. Responsible for teaching English to undergraduate and graduate students, and teacher and trainer- training and development as a member of the Teacher Development Unit. Special responsibility for the establishment of a Cambridge ESOL centre at the university, the design of oral examinations, the administration and teaching of CELTA and ICELT courses, mentoring courses, and the ongoing training of teacher trainers and co-ordinators.05.00 - 10.03 Freelance Teacher, Trainer and ELT Consultant. Clients included The British Council, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir Centre for Language Learning, Longman ELT, Cambridge University Press, Izmir 9th September University and the Aegean University, Izmir. 05.95 - 04.00 Director, British Council, Izmir, Turkey (Office of the British Vice-Consul for Cultural Affairs). Responsible for Teachers' Centre courses, services and resource centre, in-house and outreach teacher training and consultancy, international examinations, cultural activities and overall office administration and finance. 04.94 - 04.95 Director, English Fast, Izmir. Responsible for all aspects of the running of a private language school with a student role of up to 900, employing 15 full-time teachers. 09.88 - 03.94 Director of Studies, English Fast, Izmir. 09.86 - 08.88 Teacher of English as a Foreign language, English Fast (private language school), Izmir. 09.84 - 08.86 Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, Özel İzmir Türk Lisesi (private secondary/high school), Izmir. 06.84 - 08.84 Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, Sawston Centre for Languages, Cambridge. Other Teaching Experience 09.82 - 08.83 Geography Teacher, Wilson's School, Wallington, London. ELT Teacher Training Experience 11.03 - 08.07 Teacher Training, Trainer-Training, Izmir University of Economics. CELTA, ICELT, DELTA course co-ordinator and main tutor. 04.96........... Course Tutor - Cambridge ESOL CELTA ,DELTA, CEELT. British Council CertELT, DipELT, Teacher and Trainer Development Courses. 09.88 - 03.96 English Fast, Izmir. In-service staff training and development. British Council (part-time) CTEFLA second tutor, DTEFLA staff member. Other Related Experience 1998............. Cambridge ESOL CELTA Assessor. ELT Special Interests Teacher Training and Development Computer Literacy Interests Travel, contemporary music, psychology Presentations Emotional Intelligence, OUP ELT Conference, Bodrum, 17.04.10 CLIL and Team Teaching, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, 15.05.10 Brain-based Learning/Critical Thinking, Oxford Quality Schools Project, Bergama, 10-12.08.09 CLIL in Practice, EU Comenius Project, Ankara, 06.05.08 Publications CLIL and Renewable Energy Resources, Comenius Project Report, 2009 Feedback on Exercises and Tasks, BBC/British Council Teaching English, 26.11.09 Eliciting, BBC/British Council Teaching English, 26.08.09 Graphic Organisers, BBC/British Council Teaching English, 11.09.08 Student Feedback on Tasks and Activities, New Ways International, 2, 08.08 Whats The Answer to Number Three?, English Teaching Matters, 9:4, Winter 08 27 Ways to Exploit a Song, MELTA News, 65, 08.08 A Song: More than just a Gap-fill (Part 2), English Teaching Matters, 9:2, 06. 08 A Song: More than just a Gap-fill (Part 1), English Teaching Matters, 9:1, 02. 08 Emotional Intelligence and ELT, British Council Teaching English, 20.02.08 Asking Questions, British Council Teaching English, 02.01.08 Homework - British Council Teaching English, 24.10.07 Teacher Talking Time, British Council Teaching English, 15.08.07 The Provision of Teacher Development in an Expanding University, JALT Explorations in Teacher Education, 15-3, Summer 07 Aspects of Nonverbal Communication (reprinted article), in Marketing Communication, Chettiar, de Beer, & Megrove-Reddy, M., Heinemann S.A. 2007 CLIL News from Turkey, FACTWorld, 02.07 Teaching Face to Face, Humanising language Teaching, Year 9 Issue 4 , 07. 07 The Provision of Teacher Development in an Expanding University, US Govt. Institute of Educational Research, 04. 07 Nonverbal Communication: An Awareness Raising Session, JALT Explorations in Teacher Education, 15-1, Winter 07 Rhythm, British Council Teaching English, 07.04.07 Emotional Intelligence, Developing Teachers, 04.02.07 Journal Writing: A Study of Change, US Institute of Educational Research, 01. 07 Srategies for the Efficient Use of Teaching Time, US Institute of Educational Research, 12.06 Speaking Metaphorically, Humanising Language Teaching, 10.06 Express Teaching, INGED News Online Issue 3, 10. 06 Exploiting an Interactive Text, FACTWorld, 12.09.06 Thinking Outside The Teachers Box, US Institute of Educational Research, 08. 06 Analysing Language, British Council Teaching English, 24.08.06 Speaking Metaphorically, US Govt. Institute of Educational Research, 07. 06 Monitoring, British Council Teaching English, 06.07.06 Checking Understanding, British Council Teaching English, 08.06.06 CLIL: A European Overview, INGED News Online Issue 2, 06. 06 CLIL: A Way Forward For Turkey, INGED News Online Issue 1, 05.06 CLIL: A European Overview, US Govt. Institute of Educational Research, 04. 06 A Brief Look at the Miniskirt: A CLIL Project, FACTWorld, 10.04.06 A Content and language ıntegrated Learning Lesson, British Council Teaching English, 15.05.06 CLIL: A Lesson Framework, British Council Teaching English, 31.01.06 Content and Language Integrated Learning, British Council Teaching English, 20.01.06 Integrating Nonverbal Communication into Classroom Language Activites Modern English Teacher, 15-1, 01.06 Speaking Correction Techniques, Onestop English, 06.12.05 Neuro Linguistic Programming in ELT, British Council Teaching English 01.12.05 A Nonverbal Communication Lesson, Developing Teachers, 31.10.05 Nonverbal Communication, British Council Teaching English, 06.09.05 Fishing for Answers, Education Guardian, 31.08.05 Who are you? A Mingle Activity for Teacher Trainers, JALT Explorations in Teacher Education, 13-2, 08. 05 Beyond Training: Teaching, Humanising Language Teaching, 05. 05 Teacher Isolation, Humanising Language Teaching, 05. 05 A Poster for your Classroom (poster), English Teaching Professional, 05. 05 Aspects of Nonverbal Communication, Internet TESL Journal, 02. 05 Teaching English with an American Accent, Education Guardian, 26.01.05 The Importance of Eye Contact in the Classroom, Internet TESL Journal, 08. 04 Grammatical Blues (song), in Familiar Reading Passages for Vocabulary Enrichment, Rüstem Seven, 9 September University, 01. 99 The Natural Way: Longman Teacher Link, 09. 97 Some Implications of the Lexical Approach, British Council Networking, 07. 97 What's Happening in your Department?, Longman Teacher Link, 04. 97 Book Reviews Regular reviews for IATEFL Issues/Voices since 2001, MET and ELTJ. These reviews can be viewed on this site at http://www.stevedarn.com/?Book_Reviews
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