From DREAM to REALITY: About: "HAYAL KÖKSAL NETWORKING"

From DREAM to REALITY: About: "HAYAL KÖKSAL NETWORKING": NEW!!!    Hayal KÖKSAL NETWORKING was founded by Hayal Köksal in Istanbul in September 2013 in order to realize her dream on the ...

About: "HAYAL KÖKSAL NETWORKING"

NEW!!!   Hayal KÖKSAL NETWORKING was founded by Hayal Köksal in Istanbul in September 2013 in order to realize her dream on the way of building bridges between persons, groups and organizations.
Main focal issues are: Village Institutions philosophy, Great Leaders of the world, Life-long learning, Continuous quality improvement, Nonviolence in all settings, Innovative- leadership & Creativity, Human dignity, Peace and Conflict management, Project management and Ethics.
If you are interested in one or more of the above mentioned issues, please join us!

Our Links are;
"World Council for Total Quality & Excellence in Education (WCTQEE)" was founded by the quality experts and educators from 25 countries  in 1992. Dr. Köksal is the Director General of Turkey within the Council since 2003.

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HDHS):  Hayal Köksal is one of the members of the Core Team, Global advisory Board and Education Team. The aim is to create awareness among world people about human dignity and thus preventing humiliation.

Turkish & Eurasian Center for Schools of Quality; was co-founded by Hayal Köksal and John Jay Bonstingl (USA) in Istanbul, in 2000. The goals of the Center were listed as; Creating ‘Quality Awareness’ among Turkish educators, school partners and business people; establishing the Total Quality (TQ) Philosophy and Culture at schools through various activities and projects.

Boğaziçi University,Faculty of Education: She has been a part-time instructor since 1997 to train teacher trainees of the Educational Faculty. Her courses are: Classroom Management, Conflict resolution, Nonviolence in Education, Innovative Teaching, Teachers of the Future, Introduction to Education, Public Speech, Quality in ELT.

Kingston University, London_Business and Law School: Dr. Köksal has been a visiting fellow since 2011 on the way of training students about SQC movement and formation for a productive and peaceful world.

Peace X Peace: She is one of the cyber peace mentors of that organization.

Nepal QUEST: Dr. Köksal is a project partner of Nepal QUEST to train teachers and students of Nepalese schools through ICT Seagulls Project.

National Youth Development Trust from Pretoria, South Africa: Dr. Köksal has been collaborating with NYDT since 2001 to make collaborative projects with African students. She is one of the members of the "Project Ethics Committee".

 

"The Global Women's Peace Network" through "The Women's Federation for World Peace, International and Japan. It started on May 15th 2013 after attending the "17th Annual Women's Conference for Peace in the Middle East" in Paris.

 

MIT LINC after participating the 2013 LINC Conference in Boston.  

Furthermore, she conducts projects to support the students, teachers, parents, principals and the disabled. These are as follows:

* “İmece/Collaboration Circles Project” won an award from the World Bank in 2005 to support the schools. As a result of the award all the state schools were invited to participate in this movement. It is a free training for them and it is one of the best methods to apply the new curriculum which was put into practice this year at Turkish schools.Up to now, almost 3000 projects were conducted.

* International ICT Seagulls Project has just completed its tenth year with 255 projects. It is based on SQC / İmece Circles methodology and technology use (www.bilisimcimartilar.com). The International Award Ceremony will take place at CMS, Lucknow, India on 30th November 2013 with the collaboration of CMS, Nepal-QUEST and WCTQEE.

* Innovative Teachers Program of Microsoft Turkey: She acted as the localizer, trainer and advisor of the Innovative teachers Program within PiL between 2004-2009 and trained 200 innovative coaches within Turkey. Her e-book might be downloaded from the national web page of the Innovative Teachers Program (http://yenilikciogretmenler.meb.gov.tr).

* Curriculum Academy: Dr. Köksal works on the curriculum. After conducting research at pilot schools, the outcomes were shared by the authorities in 2005. Then, a thirty-hour seminar program was prepared by the branch teachers and experts and the achievement rate of the seminar was checked during the summer months. “Curriculum Academy” project was designed, the copyright of it was gotten (13088 number, 17.05.2005 dated). Within this project a collaboration with IAQC has been put into practice.

* “Happiness Workshop” is a collaborative Project aiming at creating synergy and quality among the individuals and also teams. It is recommended to the companies and individuals.

NEW! After visiting MIT in June 2013, she decided to prepare MOOCs (Multi Open Online Courses) with her teacher trainees and by the end of the year there will be 20 videoas related to "Classroom Management" for teachers' use.

**I would like to thank my present student but future colleague Çağdaş Çetinkaya for preparing my logo.

CONTACT INFO:
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e-mails: hayal@hayalkoksal.com koksalhayal@gmail.com hayal@boun.edu.tr

A New Book on Quality & Leadership

Dear All,
I would like to share a new Book with you: Building Bridges Between Quality and Leadership.
It was written by my dearest dost and brother Prof.Dr. Syed Ali from Johns Hopkins University. The description of the book might be seen below:  

Quality and Leadership are interdependent conditions for organizational success in the 21st Century. Leadership is the brain and quality is the heart of any organization. Leaders need interconnection of the brain and heart to succeed. Quality growth for an organization is organic growth created by original ideas and effective entrepreneurship by the leaders, rather than growth that comes from a wide variety of financial manipulation, including acquisitions.

Who’s this book for? This book is aimed at young aspiring future leaders to include MBA candidates and other graduate-level business majors. It is also targeted at niche groups such as the American Society for Quality and the Chartered Quality Institute of London. This book provides guidance for the visionary professionals who will be in a position to lead their organizations in the ever changing global environment in any field by 2025. This book is directed at the minds and hearts of evolving business professionals.

Why should I read it? By 2025 leaders will face extremely fluid markets. The speed of change in technology, product life cycles, and ever demanding sophisticated consumers who can compare and buy products on the internet will force organizations to change their strategies to compete and survive. The challenge will be to create a global marketplace through innovation, to manage change at an ever faster rate, and to create value for ever-more sophisticated consumers. If you read this book and apply the concepts in it you will unleash your abilities and capabilities, and whether or not your organization has designated you as a leader, this book will provide you with a road map for how you can have a positive impact on your organization.

Why is the future so important? The future is not what will happen; the future is what is happening. The long term is not something that happens someday. It is not a thing to wait for; it is a thing to be achieved living in a very different time. Changes are happening more quickly than our capacity to absorb them. The next generation of leaders will need to think in terms of the future, and not focus on the present, namely the next couple of months. Until the ability to see further into the future is developed, potential leaders will be limited in their migration to higher levels in the organization.
Why is leadership emphasized? Decision making is an important part of leadership. Many leaders fail in the decision making process by not adequately understanding the total environment and system. By 2025, the new kind of leadership will be a step-by-step process, and leaders will have to get the first step right otherwise everything that follows will be wrong. There is no universal model for quality leadership; one size does not fit all. The environment is complex and is changing rapidly, and the roles and styles of leadership must be adapted to the circumstances.

Where did these ideas come from? The ideas expressed in this book come from combing through published research papers, articles and books from leading experts on leadership and quality; add to that my 40 years of experience in industry and research in Europe and USA. In addition I have served as a faculty member in the graduate programs for Engineering for Professionals (EP) at the Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins University.

How should I read this book? Treat this book as a manual on guiding you in how to achieve and build your future. The chapters on leadership and leadership development are directed at the minds of aspiring executives and professionals, while the chapters on quality techniques are directed at their hearts by explaining that the key to success for the next generation leadership is the undertaking of steps that improve an organization’s ability to improve by investing in employee development. This book is a logical step forward from the current state of thinking about the next generation of leadership. It is a call to all professionals to expand their thinking outside of the box. In the future, solving problems will not be about spending money. It will be about understanding universal quality principles, and managing ideas and talent led by the next generation of leadership.

About the Author

Syed Ali is a writer and educator in leadership and quality systems management. He has served as a Principal Professional Staff (Professor) member at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland USA. Since 1986, he has applied his expertise to many national and international space missions including Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) TOPEX radar altimeter, NEAR, GRACE, FUSE, CONTOUR and Messenger as a Systems Assurance Manager (Retired 2007). He is an advisor for the “World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education.”

He received a B.S. degree in Quality Engineering from the Polytechnic of the Southbank, London, and an M.S. in Engineering from Kennedy-Western University, USA.

Mr. Ali is a FCQA (Fellow of the Chartered Quality Institute London), CQP (Chartered Quality Professional), and Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). He is an ASQ Certified quality auditor. Mr. Ali is the past Section Chair for ASQ (Washington, D.C.) chapter twice and also the past Education Chair.

Mr. Ali is a faculty member at The Johns Hopkins University. He personally developed the “Quality Assurance Engineering” course and has been teaching it since 1992 in the graduate programs for Engineering for Professionals (EP) at the Whiting School of Engineering.

Besides presenting papers in various professional and educational institutions in USA he has also presented papers in China, India, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Mauritius, Turkey, Nepal, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada. He has published more than 100 significant communications such as journal articles, reports, and professional talks.

The book is now actively available through the website at http://www.maplecreekmedia.com/bookstore-marketplace/non-fiction-books/building-bridges-between-quality-and-leadership/. It is also listed on Amazon.com  The book is also  listed on Barnes&Noble.com.  It will also be included in the Follett Library Resources catalog so that libraries, schools, universities and colleges throughout the U.S. will have the chance to purchase it. This book will also  listed with Books in Print, which is a world-wide database of books, along with associated information, which allows bookstores the ability to find the book and know that it is accessible for distribution and ordering.

I would like to congratulate my friend for his commitment to quality and writing.

Loves,

Hayal KÖKSAL

 

İNGED CONFERENCE

Dear Colleagues,

I have started profession as a teacher of English. I worked at secondary schools for ten years and then I moved to universities. I believe in the significance of NGOs' roles to improvement. Therefore I have taken part in the foundation of many of them. The first NGO I have taken part in is the "English Language Education Association (ELEA/İNGED) ( www.inged.org.tr). The year was 1995. Until 2004 I was an active member: I had formed a special interest group (SIG) named; Quality in ELT (Q-ELT) and organized many in-service and pre-service seminars for the teachers of English working in Turkish schools. Even though I am not an active member now, I follow the activities of ELEA/İNGED with a great joy and pride. Today I will follow a recent announcement with you. I hope you can be a part of that wonderful opportunity. If you ask me, I hope I will be there. Sincerely yours,

Hayal KÖKSAL

The 16th International INGED ELT Conference

on 4 - 6 October 2013

Hosted by Dokuz Eylül University, The School of Foreign Languages,

Izmir, Turkey.

CALL FOR PAPERS

 INGED / ELEA-Turkey (English Language Education Association) is an international organisation whose mission is to strengthen the effective teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language in Turkey while developing international connections. The 16^th International Conference aims to provide TEFL professionals with opportunities for professional development through the exchange of ideas and practices in English language teaching and research, thus enable them to integrate their knowledge of current trends in the TEFL field with their ELT practices.

We warmly invite everybody in the field of TEFL / TESOL to be a part of this significant event. We hope that the discussions will assist the progress of TEFL /TESOL around the world.

TOPIC AREAS

This year’s theme, “By Word of Mouth: Embracing Inspiring Practices”, has been set in the hope that the participants will share and compare their own teaching practices and collaborate in finding solutions to common problems. This conference aims to focus on innovative theories and practices in the following areas:

·         Teaching Language Components and Skills

·         Classroom Applications

·         Culture and literature in ELT

·         Curriculum, Syllabus and/or Materials Design

·         Implementing the Common European Framework

·         Technology in the Classroom

·         CALL

·         Assessment and Evaluation

·         Teacher Training & Development

·         ELT Management

·         Very Young and Young Learners

·         Drama in ELT

·         English for Academic Purposes (EAP)

·         English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

·         Learner Autonomy

·         Language Learning Strategies

VENUE AND DATE

The 16^th INGED International ELT Conference will be held on 4 - 6 October 2013 at DESEM, Presidency of Dokuz Eylül University, Alsancak - İzmir, Turkey. For more information please visit: www.inged.org.tr

 

 

 

Visiting the School of Istanbul ICT Seagulls

Dear All,
My visit to the ICT Seagull Project School_OkçuMusa Primary School has left wonderful memories on me. Members of the İmece Circle have been committed to their project and it is clearly seen that they love their topic. They are dealing with the disabled pets. The leading teachers Kübra Aslanoğlu and Duygu Özen are being supported highly by their principal Mr. Şadan Yücel Yüksel.

Circles from Nepal go on registering to the project. Collaboration with nepal QUEST seems to be fruitful for the Nepalese schools. I hope a very rich sharing and caring process continues between WCTQEE partners.  

My paper to the Sixth International conference of MIT's Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) was accepted and I was invited to deliver my talk at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which is a very prectigious university of the world. This is very proudful and also exciting for me. Visiting one of the best universities of the world and talking there! My topic is: "Reducing Teacher Resistance to Change and Innovations." As you know I have been dealing with ınnovative teaching since 2004 and I will share my experiences about the program. It is between 16-19 June 2013 in Boston (esd.mit.edu).

In my Ed 101 Course, I am introduing the Village Institutions for two  weeks. This week, we will have a guest speaker_Teacher-Author Mr. Mehmet Sazak. As a graduate of Village Institution, he will share his memories with my 62 students.

I wish you a very peaceful and  productive week. 

Hayal KÖKSAL

 

Collaboration with "Nepal-QUEST"

Dear all,
I have always been impressed with the wonderful philosophy of the eastern world. Based upon the saying; "Sun rises the East", after my strong ties with India and Mauritius, I have started a new collaboration with the dosts from Nepal-QUEST. The founding president of Nepal-QUEST Prof.Dr. Dinesh Chapagain has focused on teacher training after his excellent work at Kathmandu university as one of the deans. Nepal has been attending our International ICT Seagulls Project for the last two years and the General Secretary of Nepal-QUEST, Assistant prof.Dr. Lekhnath Pathak has actually been one of our international judges. This year is the 10th Proud Year of our project and in addition to the great support of City Montessori School, Lucknow, India and the great leader Dr. Jagdish Gandhi, we have a new leader_Prof.Chapagain_ for the  Seagulls. I would like to thank him for standing beside me with his very hardworking team http://www.questnepal.org.np/newsletter/Index.html.

On 21-22 March 2013, "2nd International Conference on Psychology and Allied Sciences" will take place in Haryana, India, with the collaboration of" Indian Association of Health, Research and Welfare" and "Guru Jambheshwar Üniversitesi, Centre for Behavioral Reserach and Intervention". As one of the virtual keynotes, I will present my talk about "The Methodology of Training Innovative Teachers". If you are interested in the event, please visit:

http://www.conferencealerts.com/seeconf.mv?q=ca1s3h3s .

As the final sharing, I will share my wonderful experiences I gained suring my training session within the "ICBA-International Capacity Building Alliance Program", organized by Koç University and  Novartis Oncoloji. 17 participants from various cancer and MS Associations were there and we had wonderful four hours together. The theme of my training was; "İmece Circles and Creating Synergy at NGOs". I thank to the organizing persons guided by Prof.Levent Bağcı.

I wish you a wonderful weekend.

Hayal KÖKSAL