Faculty of Business Seminar Series / Dr. Ebru Kılıç Bebek

Date: Nov 27, 2019 - Wednesday

Time: 10:30-11:30

Place: AB2, Meeting Room 345

TITLE: "WHAT DO STUDENTS NEED TO DO TO ACHIEVE BETTER?"

(UNDERSTANDING SELF-REGULATED LEARNING AND AN OVERVIEW OF EFFECTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES)

Achieving better at the university level requires students to be strategic, monitoring, adaptable, responsive, effortful, organized and relevant. This whole-person perspective is required to better understand and intervene with student engagement and achievement problems. The topic of self-regulated learning provides us an organized set of topics to cover while explaining these notions to our students such as goal setting (e.g., performance vs. mastery goals), motivation (e.g., self-efficacy beliefs, growth vs. fixed mindset), internal and external resource management (e.g., sleep, exercise, nutrition, time management, help-seeking, etc.), attention and memory, cognition and metacognition, in addition to some basic skills (note-taking, reading, writing, test-taking), and some required thinking skills (e.g., problem solving, analytical and critical thinking). 

After providing this “big picture” perspective, this seminar will focus and elaborate more on “Effective Learning Strategies” for which the main resources will be: https://www.learningscientists.org/downloadable-materials

 Speaker Info: 

Dr. Ebru Kılıç-Bebek received her B.A. degree in Translation and Interpreting in 2000 from Boğaziçi University. She started to teach English Language courses at the English Prep Division of Yıldız Technical University and received her Certificate for Teaching English from Marmara University in 2001. She received her M.A. degree in Curriculum and Instruction in 2004 from Yıldız Technical University and her Ph.D. degree in Urban Education, specializing in Learning and Development, in 2009 from Cleveland State University (CSU). Her work experience covers a range of higher education teaching and learning projects including relevant institutional student support at CSU between 2005 and 2010. She taught the graduate-level EGT 517: Creativity, Inquiry, and Productive Thinking course at the Gifted and Talented Education M.Ed. program of CSU. Then she moved back to Turkey with her family and worked as a researcher for the “Thinking Schools Project” Educational Reform Initiative (ERI) by Sabancı University between 2012 and 2015. In 2015, she started working at Özyeğin University as the Manager of the “Teaching and Learning Project” and since 2016 she has been working as the Manager of the Learning Office. She has been teaching EDU 201: Learning to Learn (free elective) and SEC 202-204 Skills Management (mandatory for all students and a pre-requisite for their mandatory internships) courses at Özyeğin University.