Assoc. Prof. Bünyamin BAVLI

Bünyamin BAVLI completed his undergraduate education in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in 2006. After graduating, he worked as an English Language Teacher at Frankfurt Georg Kerschensteiner High School as part of the Comenius Language Assistantship Project from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 to 2014, he held various positions including English Language Teacher, Vice-Principal at public schools, and Project Expert at the Local Ministry of National Education. In 2011, he completed his Master's Degree in critical thinking skills of teachers in the Curriculum and Instruction studies. In 2014, he started working as a Research Assistant in the Department of Educational Sciences at Yildiz Technical University. From 2016 to 2017, he was a visiting researcher at Warsaw University, conducting doctoral dissertation research funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. He successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on English Teacher Effectiveness in Poland and Turkey in 2017. Currently, he serves as a an executive committee member  of WERA TASK FORCE Global Research in Extended Education. As an Associate Professor in the curriculum and instructional studies department, School of Education at Yildiz Technical University, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. His research interests cover higher-order thinking skills, extended education, social -emotional learning, extra-curricular activities, engagement, and action research.