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| Mr. Machin, BUPS/BIS,Ankara, Turkey |
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| Thank you for visiting Mr. Machin's Science Web Site. If you have any questions or ideas to make the site better, please write to me at the address below - and if anybody wants to get in contact with me or some of my Turkish students, please get in touch. |
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| All About Mr. Machin |
| I was born and grew up in England, in the South East. My home town of South Woodham Ferrers is about an hour from London. There, I went to Elmwood County Primary School and William De Ferrers Secondary School. I went to University in Leeds, studying Zoology (BSc). Also in Leeds, I took an English teaching course (cTEFLA). |
| In 1995, I came to Turkey, originally teaching English at Language schools in the capital, Ankara. In 1997, I started teaching at TED Ankara College. I taught science, alongside maths and English in year 5. In these photographs, you can see some of my classes, doing a Christmas Pantomime. |
| In 1999, I went back to England for a year, to do a Science Teaching qualification (PGCE) at Hertfordshire University. In the Autumn of 1999, I taught at Parmiter's school, and on the left is a photo of some of my year 7 students. |
| In the Spring and Summer of 2000, I taught at Rickmansworth school. These are a few photos of my year 7 students during an anatomy class, and displaying some of their impressive project work. |
| In the Autumn of 2000, I returned to Turkey and started teaching at Ozel Bilkent Primary School and High School. In my four years there I had a great time, teaching many different classes and many different years. I taught general science lessons and lab lessons in middle school (years 6 and 7), and biology in high school (lise 1). I taught some English (year 8). Here are some photos of some of my students and colleagues at OBi. |
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| Since 2000, I have been involved in Bilkent University`s teacher training programme. I helped mentoring student teachers who took some of my classes. Here are some of our great new teachers on their graduation day! |
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| I was also mentoring and helping with a teacher training course at Bilkent University - here is us out on a fossil hunt... (click here for details) |
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| In July 2003, my daughter Kate Ece was born, pictured here >>>. |
| In 2004, I left Ozel Bilkent and went back to TED College for 2 years. Here are photos of my colleagues and students at TED. |
| In September 2006, I started science teaching at BUPS/BIS, an international school in Ankara. In my first year, I had a great time teaching science in years 6 & 7, and teaching IGCSE biology in year 8, and the International Baccalaureate biology in year 11. Here are photos of a great fun year. |
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| This year I am teaching more middle school, and I wish all my students the best of luck for a successful year 2007-8. |