Şuan hayatta olmayan değerli öğretmenlerimin,
24 November 2020
Öğretmenler günü Happy Teachers' Day
9 August 2020
Kestirme Olmayan Yollardan Yürürken Kestirmeniz Gereken 5 Önemli Nokta
“Unutmayın! Yaşam bilinmezlerle dolu uzun bir yoldur. Ve bu yolun kestirmesi yoktur. En önemli değerinizin mutluluk ve huzur olması dileğiyle.” diyen yönetmen ve yapımcı Emre MİNEOĞLU 9 Ağustos 2020 tarihinde yayınladığı videosunda şu beş başlık üzerinde duruyor.
1.
Ne yapıyorsanız sürekli olarak yapmalı.
2.
Sizi aşağı çeken insanlardan uzak durmalı.
3.
Ortak akla inanmalı
4.
Cesur olmalı
5.
Küçük aralar vermelisiniz.
Bence bu başlıklar gerçekten özenle seçilmiş. Üniversitede okuyan her öğrencime mutlaka bu ilham verici kısa ve akılcı videoyu seyretmelerini tavsiye ederim.
Hayal et, ilham bul
ve üret felsefesinin mimarlarından, yönetmen ve yapımcı Emre MİNEOĞLU İngiltere’de
yaşıyor. Emre kısa aralıklarla yaz aylarında gittiğim İngiltere’de öğrencilerimle
beraber yaptığımız Londra gezilerine davetimi geri çevirmeden katılmıştır. Emre
ile yaptığım sohbetlerden mutlaka bir şeyler öğrenmişimdir ve özel olmayan konu
ve örnekleri her sene öğrencilerimle yaptığım sohbetlerde mutlaka
paylaşmışımdır. Niçin mi? Çok basit çünkü böyle insanlar gelecek planlaması
yapan her öğrencime örnek olmakta, ilham vermektedir.
Haziran 2020 den
itibaren at gözlüğü takmayan, vizyon sahibi olan her öğrencime whats up üzerinden Mineoğlu’nun
videolarını paylaşıyorum. Doğru ve güzel dönütler aldım. Şöyle ki, Emre
abilerini tanıyan en az 30 öğrencim oldu. Emre abilerinin nereden nereye
geldiklerini gören bu liseli öğrencilerimin bazıları üniversiteye başladı
bazıları üniversite 2 sınıftalar. Şimdi diyeceksiniz ki herşey zamanla gelişir,
yerinde durmaz! Tabi ki ancak bu ağaç her mevsim meyve veriyorsa taşlanmaz tam
tersine o meyvelerden feyz alınır.
İnanıyorum Mineoğlun’dan
genç öğrencilerin alacağı doğru öneriler olacaktır.
Hey GENÇLİK
önerileri süzgecinizden geçirin değerlendirin. Emre’nin dediği gibi resmini
çizin, duvarınıza asın. Her gün kalktığınızda bu resme bakın. Sıraya soktuğunuz
hedefleriniz için 365 günün her gününde eğer o gün belirlediğiniz hedef için
bir eylemde bulunduysanız duvara bir çentik atın. Bir yılda 365 çentiniz olduysa kendinizi TEBRİK
edin çünkü birisi gibi sizde ŞİMDİ Hedefinize Çok Yaklaştınız.
Değerli Emrecim sen
uzaklardan göremesen de öğrencilerime vermiş olduğun ilham için teşekkürlerimi
kabul et lütfen.
E.Y
Emre Mineoğlu Youtube kanalı giriş lütfen.
Instagram tıklayın lütfen.
Resmi web sayfası tıklayın lütfen.
23 July 2020
What is the most valuable thing for you?
Metnin Türkçesini alta yazdım.
What is the most valuable thing for you?
Esteemed elders and parents, dear
colleagues, students, my best friends, my precious family, you, valuable
PEOPLE, whom without knowing your names, I greeted in some way at some time or
other.
Greetings
Today is July 23, 2020, you are still
calling and showing concern for me. I feel very good. Thank you all. Endless
thanks for your hands reaching out for heavens, for your prayers. I am grateful
to all of you who came to the intensive care and to my room at the hospital,
who called by phone and sent an SMS, and who wrote on Facebook and Instagram
between 3rd and 10th of March. Maybe my gratitudes will be insufficient, but
please accept them.
I had my last examination on June 1. Mr. Mehmet
Serdar, my doctor who performed the surgery, said, "You are good now,
there is no need for a second operation." Since then, I have been feeling
very well, like before. I would like to thank everyone who was with me.
That day is still in my mind like
yesterday. I took a medicine that would change my life 2 days before the new
year (December 29, 2019). Who knew that when I woke up at night and stood up,
due to the side effect of this cold medicine, I would faint in my house and hit
my head very hard on the ground as a result of increased heart palpitations and
dizziness. I hit the back of my head very hard on the ground. That day, around
01:00 a.m., I opened my eyes in the emergency ward of the hospital. They were
trying to get me into the Magnetic Resonance device and, I remember telling
them "I can't breathe!", and I had started throwing up.
When I opened my eyes, I was being
administered IV lying in the emergency ward, while my father-in-law was next to
me. The doctor came and asked the name of my father-in-law, but I could not
remember his name! They put ice behind my head and sent me home about after two
hours.
My life had already started to change after
that night, but I did not know what was going on. I had trouble sleeping for at
least two nights, as there was a big swelling behind my head! We had entered
2020, and like every family father, I started to make plans like where to go
with my wife and children during summer vacation. Insomnia began in the last
week of January. In February, I started to throw up for no reason in the
evenings or in the mornings. In the daytime, I could not endure the headaches.
I wanted to cry because of the headaches during the watch hours at school.
While I climbed the 25-30 flights of stairs between the secondary and primary
school buildings, I was feeling as if I was experiencing a turbulence similar
to a one which occurs sometimes in the planes, and I could not stop myself from
swinging. Something strange was happening inside my head that I couldn't
understand.
At the insistence of my dear wife, I made
an appointment at the neurology department of the hospital near our home. I was
examined on February 28, 2020. On March 3, 2020, an appointment was made for an
MRI of my brain at an imaging center in Maltepe, Ankara. I asked my
father-in-law to take me to the imaging center at 08:00 p.m. on 3rd of March. I
arrived my medical examination on time, got into the machine, the measurement
was conducted. I got out of the machine. Asking how long my headache had been
going on, the lady in charge waved the CD in her hand and said, "You need
to go to your hospital immediately! I'm calling your neurologist now." On
the day I was operated on, this lady called my wife, and asked, "What
happened?", "How is Mr. Erkin?", "How is he doing?",
"Did he have the surgery?", and so on.
Around 09.00 p.m., I went to the hospital.
I entered through the door. I told to the officer that I came from the imaging
center, and they had asked me to see my doctor. “We know, sit down, we called
your doctor. Your doctor is coming from his house. ”, the lady responded. They
took me to the doctor's room. After a while, the neurologist came. He took the
MRI CD from my hand. He put the CD in his computer. He waited for a while. He
looked and looked and looked at the images. And told, “You are having a brain
hemorrhage. The hemorrhage still continues. ” I was almost frozen. I left the
room.
Impulsively, I called my two very close
friends that moment. I entrusted my daughter to one and my son to the other.
They were asking about my wife, they wanted to talk. However, I didn't feel
like calling my wife. Needless to say, after a while, inevitably I called my
wife from my phone, and she came to the hospital. Instead of the most beautiful
summer vacation project of 2020, I had to tell my wife the worst news of 2020
unwillingly. My father-in-law was waiting outside. We went out of the hospital
with my wife. It was freezing outside. My father-in-law at one side and my wife
at the other, we slowly walked down the hospital stairs. I sent my wife home,
near our little baby. Because my son was very little, 1,5 years old and still
getting milk from his mother!
My very successful student, Selçuk GÜLEÇ's
father, Doctor Mustafa GÜLEÇ, came to my mind, so I called. (Mr. Mustafa, whom
I owe, had also helped greatly my daughter's surgery in 2008.) He asked me to
go to Güven hospital immediately and see the doctor he named in the emergency
ward.
While I was in the car, I called the principal
of my school, Ahmet SÜRÜCÜ, whom I loved as much as my father. I explained the
situation. We both had a hard time talking. I asked for forgiveness. My father,
whom I lost in a traffic accident, came to my mind for a moment, and I wanted
to say myself, "Come father, I want to hug you one last time as much as I
want.", but it didn't happen, I couldn't say it.
My father-in-law, who was driving the car,
had been witnessing my conversations with every person I called from my phone.
After a while, he started sniffing. I was a fool, I had made the poor man very
upset involuntarily.
We had arrived at the hospital, and while
my father was parking the car, I called Mr. Harun, a colleague from our school,
and insistently repeated him a few sentences that he needed to tell to my
branch leader, while asking him to promise me. After entering the hospital
through the emergency ward, I found the doctor whom Mr. Mustafa asked to see
me. I entered a room where I didn't know what to expect. It was a small examination
room, and it was around 23.00 in the night. I was getting cold. The room had
started to get darker for me. The doctor asked for the CD, so I handed it.
Approximately 6 - 7 minutes later, the same doctor came to me and said that
Doctor Mustafa was on the phone. He gave me the phone. “My dear Erkin teacher,
Neurosurgeon Specialist Doctor Mehmet Serdar will perform your surgery in our
hospital.", Mr. Mustafa told. What could I say? I said, okay. They took
the phone in my hand. "Undress,
please. We will take you to the intensive care.", they said.
I was like a first grader. I immediately
started to do whatever male nurses wanted me to do. "I'm
going.", I told to myself. The
mobile phone, which I had never used so fast, became the last postman between
life and whom I wanted to call. I called and I was called back, I texted and I
was texted back... Now, I was freer than before, and I had a very thin cloth on
me which every patient is made to wear. They gave my trousers, my watch, my
ring on whose surface my wife's name is engraved, and my black boots to my
father-in-law. My father-in-law said, "Farewell for now sonny, you will be
fine." We could not look into each other's eyes, and he bowed his head
down.
I spent the next 1,5 days in my room
numbered 2 in the intensive care. The window behind me had a magnificent view
of Ankara overlooking Atatürk Boulevard. That day, I was counting every sixty
minutes one by one, minute by minute from night to morning. Two important
people I lost in traffic accidents in the 1990s came to my mind for a moment;
one was my late father, the other was my English friend of Turkish Cypriot
descent, Erben!
“Wait for me, I'm coming to you. Father,
let me tell you about your grandchildren at length, shall we talk about all the
days that passed without you? Hey Erben! My brother, let's write a few lines
for the beloved. ”, I was telling to myself. Erben had a strong talent for
writing poetry.
It was morning. First Doctor Mr. Mustafa
and then the doctor who was going to perform my surgery, Mr. Mehmet Serdar
came, and we met. “It's a simple surgery that will end in 2 hours,” he said.
(However, that surgery seemed like it would take me away from life and I
couldn't tell this to the doctor.) It was daytime now, and the darkness of the
night had been lifted. In the meantime, I learned from my wife, who came near
me, that Zeynep and Pelin teachers were at the door of the intensive care unit,
and at lunch time, I learned from the nurse who came near me that my teammate,
Harun teacher was at the door, and asking if I needed anything. Some of the
parents of my students and my students or friends, who came to the bleak, large
and blackest intensive care door, were writing down some things on papers and
sending them with the nurse to me. At noon, the lady who was the head nurse
came near me. She said that the surgery would be on Thursday morning. I was a
little relieved. But I couldn't get the question marks out of my mind.
I had entered the last 24 hours of my life
in the world, when the soul and the body were still together. The visiting
hours had started. They wanted the visits to be short, since the place I was in
was the intensive care unit. But, they didn't know of my troubles. I had never
talked to my wife for such a short time. We talked for a total of six minutes.
As I said, there was a window behind me with a very beautiful Ankara view, from
where nice and warm sun had been permeating in. The sun that was filtering in
from the window was dancing freely mixed with tears in my wife's green eyes. I
was literally fighting to stop every second of that damn 6 minutes.
The one whom I spent my 12 years on the
same pillow,
O' darling, imprison me in your green eyes,
Embrace me, but never let go, I promise I
will never leave again,
Words stuck in my throat.
Ecem, my daughter, whom I couldn't get
enough of her smell. I wondered, at which department she would study?
Eventually, she would get married, but would she be upset that I couldn't be
near her? Or, would she say, "Father, come back."? My son, Boysan, my
brave one, at which schools would he study? What profession would he have?
Whose hand would he kiss instead of mine? Would he say, "Dad"? My son
is 1,5 years old, and I am 43 years old. Shall I be thankful to God? or Should
I rebel?
What kind of torture is this...
Where is my freedom? I can't stop time that
I know, but I have forgotten...
My last 13 hours, it was around 08.00 or
09.00 in the evening, and my wife brought two guests whom I loved very much.
One was our school's IB coordinator, Mr. Fatih, and the other one was our
secondary school English coordinator and our head of the branch, Mrs. Işıl.
These beautiful people and the news and messages they brought gave me a lot of
morale...
Would I quickly get cold, turn into
lime-white like the old man who left the intensive care around 03:00 at night
on the first day I had arrived at my intensive care room numbered two, and
afterwards would they call my family and tell to come and see me last time?
There was a lump in my throat. I wasn't able to say anything to those who came
to my visit, and the days when I had met them first and our memories together
were coming to my mind the moment we caught each other's eyes. Then, I just
wanted to write a message to people on Facebook to pray for me for the last
time…
A 2-hour surgery at nine o'clock on 5th of
March, and 2nd chance has been given to me. I AM ALIVE.
I would like to give this answer to the
question I asked you at the beginning of my text. I AM ALIVE.
When I checked my mobile bill, I saw that
179 people called me on 4th and 5th of March only, and my wife was able to
return only to some of them.
Go out immediately after reading this text
and slowly breath in that beautiful air feeling it and smile, then look at that
deep blue sky and be happy. Congratulations, you are alive, you are living like
me. It's simple but true, know the VALUE of BEING ALIVE and the TIME itself.
Look forward to live.
Stay with love.
Erkin YILDIRIM
Sizin için en değerli şey nedir?
Değerli büyüklerim, velilerim, sevgili meslektaşlarım,
sevgili öğrencilerim, can dostlarım, canım ailem, bir şekilde merhabalaştığım, ismini
bilmediğim sadece bir zaman selam verdiğim siz değerli İNSANLAR.
Merhaba
Bugün 23 Temmuz 2020, hala beni arayıp soruyorsunuz. Ben çok
iyiyim. Sağ olun, var olun. Semaya kalkan elleriniz dualarınız için sonsuz
teşekkürler. 3 Mart – 10 Mart arasında yoğun bakıma gelen, hastanedeki odama
gelen giden, telefonla arayan, SMS atan, Facebook’dan, instagram’dan yazan
hepinize minnettarım. Bu teşekkürlerim belki de yetersiz kalacak, lütfen kabul
edin.
1 Haziran günü en son muayenemi yaptırdım. Ameliyatı yapan
doktorum, Mehmet Serdar Bey “Artık iyisin ikinci ameliyata gerek kalmadı.”
dedi. O günden beri eskisi gibi çok iyiyim. Yanımda olan herkese teşekkür
ederim.
O gün hala dün gibi aklımda. Yeni yıla girmeden 2 gün önce
(29 Aralık 2019) hayatımı değiştirecek bir ilaç aldım. Kim bilirdi bu nezle
ilacının yan etkisinden dolayı gece uyanıp ayağa kalktığımda, kalp çarpıntım
artması, baş dönmesi sonucu gece evimde bayılıp kafamı çok sert bir şekilde
yere çarpacaktım. Başımın arkasını çok sert yere vurmuşum. O gün gece saat 01.00
civarı hastanenin acilinde gözümü açtım. Manyetik Rezonans cihazına beni
sokmaya çalışıyorlardı “Nefes alamıyorum!” dediğimi hatırlıyorum ve kusmaya
başlamıştım.
Gözümü açtığımda acilde serum takılmış yatıyordum, yanımda
kayınbabam vardı. Doktor geldi kayın babamın adını sordu ancak adını
hatırlamıyordum! Başımın arkasına buz koydular yaklaşık iki saat sonra beni eve
gönderdiler.
İşte hayatım o geceden sonra çoktan değişmeye başlamıştı
ancak benim olup bitenden haberim yoktu. Başımın arkasında büyük bir şiş olduğu
için en az iki gece uyumakta zorlandım! 2020 yılına girmiştik ve her aile
babası gibi yaz tatilinde eşim ve çocuklarımla nerede tatil yapalım gibi
planlar yapmaya başlamıştım. Ocak ayının son haftası gece uykusuzlukları başlamış.
Şubat ayında ise akşam veya sabahları durup dururken kusmaya başlamıştım.
Gündüz ise baş ağrısından duramıyordum. Okulda nöbet saatlerinde baş ağrısından
dolayı ağlamak istiyordum. Okulun ortaokul ile ilkokul binaları arasındaki 25-30
adımlık merdivenleri çıkarken sanki uçakta bazen hava boşluğu yaşarsınız işte o
merdivenleri çıkarken öyle hissediyordum sallanmaktan kendimi alamıyordum. Kafamın
içinde anlam veremediğim tuhaf bir şeyler oluyordu.
Değerli eşimin ısrarıyla evimizin yakınındaki hastanedeki nöroloji
bölümünden randevu aldım. Şubat 28, 2020 de muayenemi oldum. 3 Mart 2020
tarihinde Maltepe, Ankara da bir görüntüleme merkezinde başımın MR’ı çekilmesi
için randevu alındı. 3 Mart günü akşam 20. 00 de görüntüleme merkezine beni
götürmesi için kayın babamdan rica ettim. Muayeneme zamanında gittim, makinanın
içine girdim, ölçüm yapıldı. Makinadan çıktım. Baş ağrımın ne zamandan beri
devam ettiğini soran görevli bayan elindeki CD’yi sallayarak “Derhal hastanenize
gideceksiniz!” “Nöroloji doktorunuzu ben şimdi arıyorum.” dedi. Ameliyata
girdiğim gün bu bayan eşimi arayıp. Ne oldu? Erkin Bey nasıl? Ne yapıyor?
Ameliyata girdimi? diye sormuş.
Saat 21.00 civarında hastaneye gittim. Kapıdan girdim.
Görevliye görüntüleme merkezinden geliyorum, doktorumu görmemi istediler dedim.
Bayan “Biliyoruz oturun biz doktorunuzu çağırdık. Doktorunuz evden geliyor.”
dedi. Doktorun odasına aldılar. Bir süre sonra nöroloji doktoru geldi. Elimdeki
MR CD’ni aldı. Bilgisayarına CD’yi koydu. Bir süre bekledi. Görüntülere baktı,
baktı, baktı. “Siz beyin kanaması geçiriyorsunuz. Sizin beyin kanamanız devam
ediyor” dedi. Adeta buz kesilmiştim. Odadan ayrıldım.
O dakikada düşünmeden çok yakın iki dostumu telefonla aradım.
Birine kızımı, birine oğlumu emanet ettim. Onlarda eşimi soruyorlar, konuşmak
istiyorlardı. Hâlbuki ki eşimi aramayı canım hiç çekmiyordu. Tabi bir süre
sonra çaresiz eşimi cep telefonundan aradım hastaneye geldi. 2020’nin en güzel
yaz tatili projesi yerine 2020’nin en kötü haberini istemeye istemeye eşime
söylemek zorunda kaldım. Kayın babam dışarıda bekliyordu. Eşimle hastaneden dışarı
çıktık. Dışarısı buz gibiydi. Bir yanımda kayınbabam, öteki yanımda eşim
hastanenin merdivenlerinden aşağıya ağır ağır indik. Eşimi eve küçük
bebeğimizin yanına gönderdim. Çünkü oğlum çok küçüktü, 1,5 yaşında ve hala
anacığından süt alıyordu!
Çok başarılı öğrencim, Selçuk GÜLEÇ’in, babası Doktor Mustafa
GÜLEÇ aklıma geldi, aradım.( Mustafa Bey sağ olsun kızımın 2008 yılındaki
ameliyatına da çok yardımcı olmuştu.) Beni hemen Güven hastanesine gitmemi ve
acilde adını verdiği doktoru görmemi istedi.
Yolda arabayla giderken babam kadar sevdiğim okulumun müdürü
Ahmet SÜRÜCÜ yü aradım. Durumu anlattım. İkimizde konuşurken zorlanıyorduk.
Helallik istedim. (Bir an için trafik kazasında kaybettiğim babam aklıma geldi,
içimden baba gel son kez sana doya doya sarılmak istiyorum demek istedim, ama olmadı
diyemedim.)
Arabayı süren kayın babamda cep telefonundan aradığım her
insan ile konuşmalarıma şahit oluyordu. Bir süre sonra burnu çekmeye başlamıştı.
Ben bir ahmaktım, adamcağızı istemeyerek çok üzmüştüm.
Hastaneye gelmiştik, babam arabayı park ederken okuldan
Harun Beyi arayıp ulaşamadığım zümre başkanıma ısrarla söylemesi için birkaç
cümleyi tekrarlayıp söz vermesini istedim. Hastanenin acilinden girdikten sonra
Doktor Mustafa Beyin beni görmesini istediği doktoru buldum. Ne olacağını
bilemediğim bir odaya girdim. Küçük bir muayene odasıydı gece 11 civarıydı.
Üşümeye başlamıştım. İçerisi benim için kararmaya başlamıştı. Doktor CD’yi
istedi verdim. Yaklaşık 6 - 7 dakika sonra aynı doktor yanıma geldi telefonda
Doktor Mustafa var dedi. Telefonu uzattı. Mustafa Hocam, “Erkin öğretmenim”,
hastanemizde Beyin Cerrahı Uzman Doktor Mehmet Serdar’ın ameliyatımı yapacağını
söyledi. Ne diyebilirdim? Peki dedim. Elimdeki telefonu elimden aldılar. “Soyunun” “Sizi yoğun bakıma götüreceğiz”
dediler.
İlkokul 1. Sınıf öğrencisi gibiydim. Erkek hemşireler ne
yapmamı isterlerse hemen yapmaya başlamıştım. İçimden “ Gidiyorum.” dedim. Hiç
bu kadar hızlı kullanmadığım elimdeki cep telefonu hayat ile aramak
istediklerim arasındaki son postacı olmuştu. Aradım arandım, yazdım yazdılar…
Artık eskisinden daha özgürdüm, üstümde her hastaya giydirilen çok ince bir bez
kıyafet vardı. Pantolonumu, saatimi, eşimin adı yazan yüzüğümü ve siyah botlarımı
kayınbabama verdiler. Kayın babam “Hadi yavrum Allahaısmarladık, iyi olacaksın”
dedi. Göz göze gelemedik, kafasını eğdi.
Sonraki 1,5 günü yoğun bakımdaki 2 numaralı odamda geçirdim.
Başımın arkasındaki pencere Atatürk Bulvarını gören muhteşem bir Ankara
manzarasına sahipti. O gün geceden sabaha her altmış dakikayı tek tek dakika
dakika sayıyordum. 1990 larda trafik kazasında kaybettiğim iki önemli insan bir
an için aklıma geldi biri rahmetli babam, biri Kıbrıs Türk kökenli İngiliz
arkadaşım Erben!
“Bekleyin, yanınıza geliyorum. Baba torunlarını sana uzun
uzun anlatırım sensiz geçen bütün günleri konuşalım mı? Hey Erben! Kardeşim
yazalım birkaç satır sevgiliye ” içimden konuşuyordum. Erben’in şiir yazma yanı
çok güçlüydü.
Sabah olmuştu. Doktor Mustafa Bey ardından saat 09.00
civarında ameliyatımı yapacak Doktor, Mehmet Serdar Bey geldi, tanıştık. “2
saatte bitecek basit bir ameliyat” dedi. (Gel gör ki o ameliyat sanki beni
hayattan ayıracak gibi geliyordu ve ben bunu doktora söyleyemiyordum). Gündüz
olmuş, gecenin karanlığı kalkmıştı. Bu arada yoğun bakımın dışında Zeynep ve
Pelin öğretmenin yoğun bakımın kapısında olduğunu yanıma gelen eşimden
öğrendim, öğle saatinde takım arkadaşım Harun hocamın kapıda olduğunu bir şey
isteyip istemediğimi sorduğunu yanıma gelen hemşireden öğrendim. Sevimsiz
simsiyah büyük yoğun bakım kapısına gelen bazı veli, öğrenci veya arkadaşlarım
kâğıtlara bir şeyler yazıyorlar, sonrada hemşire ile göndermeye başladılar. Öğle
saati idi başhemşire Hanım yanıma geldi. Ameliyatın Perşembe sabah olacağını
söyledi. Biraz rahatlamıştım. Ama soru işaretlerini zihnimden atamıyordum.
Dünyadaki hayatın hani ruh ile bedenin bir arada olduğu son
24 saate girmiştim. Görüşme sürem başlamıştı. Burası yoğun bakım olduğu için
ziyaretlerin kısa sürmesini istiyorlardı. Ama bilmezler ki ne derdim var. Hiç
bu kadar kısa süre eşimle konuşmamıştım. Toplam altı dakika konuştuk. Hani
demiştim arkamda çok güzel Ankara manzaralı sıcacık güneşin girdiği bir pencere
vardı. İşte oradan giren güneş eşimin yeşil gözlerinde yaşla karışık özgürce dans
ediyordu. Kahrolası 6 dakikanın her saniyesini durdurmak için adeta savaş
veriyordum.
12 senemi aynı yastıkta geçirdiğim,
Ey sevgili beni yeşil gözlerine hapset,
Sarıl ama sakın bırakma söz bir daha gitmeyeceğim,
Boğazım yumru yumru.
Daha kokusuna doyamadığım kızım, Ecem. Acaba hangi bölümü
okuyacaktı? Elbet evlenecekti yanında olmadığım için üzülecek miydi? Yoksa Baba
geri dön diyecek miydi? Oğlum, Boysan, aslan parçam, Hangi okullara gidecek? Ne
mesleği olacaktı? Benim yerime kimin elini öpecekti. Baba diyecek miydi? Oğlum
1,5 yaşında ben 43 yaşında. Allaha şükür mü edeyim? Yoksa isyan mı edeyim?
Bu ne biçim zulüm…
Özgürlüğüm nerede kaldı? Bildiğim ama unuttuğum zamanı durduramıyorum…
Son 13 saatim, akşam 8 – 9 civarıydı eşim çok sevdiğim iki
misafiri getirdi. Biri okulumun IB koordinatörü, Fatih Bey, bir diğeri ise
ortaokul İngilizce koordinatörü ve zümre başkanımız Işıl Hocamdı. Bu güzel
insanlar ve getirdikleri haber ve mesajlar bana çok moral verdi…
İki numaralı yoğun bakım odama ilk geldiğim gün gece üç
civarı yoğun bakımdan ayrılan yaşlı amca gibi mi çabucak soğuyacak, kireç
beyazı olacak, ardından aileme telefon açılacak son kez gelin bakın mı
diyeceklerdi. Boğazım düğüm düğüm düğümlenmişti. Ziyaretime gelenlere bir şey söyleyemiyor,
göz göze geldiğim her kişi ile ilk tanıştığım günler ve yaşadıklarımız aklıma
geliyordu. Ardından aklıma sadece Facebook’dan insanlara bana son kez dua
etmeleri için mesaj yazmak geldi…
5 Mart sabah dokuzda 2 saatlik bir ameliyat ve 2. Şans
verildi. YA ŞI YO RUM.
Yazımın başında size sorduğum soruya ben şu yanıtı vermek
isterim. YA ŞI YO RUM.
Cep faturama baktığımda sadece 4 ve 5 Mart günleri 179 kişi
aramış eşim bunların bir kısmına geri dönebilmiş.
Bu metni okuduktan hemen sonra dışarı çıkın ve yavaş yavaş
aldığınız o güzel nefesi içinize hissederek çekin ve gülümseyin, sonra o
masmavi gökyüzüne bakıp mutlu olun. Tebrikler hayattasınız benim gibi
yaşıyorsunuz. Basit ama gerçek HAYATTA OLMANIN ve ZAMANIN KIYMETİNİ bilin.
Yaşamaya bakın.
Sevgi ile kalın.
30 March 2020
2. ULUSAL ÖĞRETMENLER ARASI YENİLİKÇİ ÖĞRETİM MATERYALLERİ TASARIM YARIŞMASI
Genç öğretmen arkadaşlarım,
Sizin için ulusal bir yarışma var, eminim ders verirken
aklınıza herkesten farklı değişik fikirler gün ve gün gelmektedir.
“Şunu böyle veya şöyle yapsam bu dersi daha hızlı
öğretebilirim.” demişinizdir,
“Şöyle bir aletim veya materyalim olsa bu ders daha eğlenceli
olur.” demişinizdir,
“Öğretmen arkadaşlarıma anlattım süper bir fikir.” dediler,
“Keşke şu geçenlerde bulduğum yöntemi anlatacak bir
materyalim olsa.” dediyseniz,
“Benim gibi çılgın fikirleri olan öğretmenlerle aynı
platformda tanışmak çok isterim” diye aklınızdan mı geçirdiniz,
“Birkaç öğrencimin bu materyali dersimde kullandırdım.
Dersim çok güzel geçti. Bu eğitim materyalini keşke diğer öğretmenlerde
derslerinde kullansalar.” dediyseniz.
İşte tam size göre bir yarışma. Ulusal Öğretmenler Arası Yenilikçi Öğretim Materyalleri Tasarım Yarışması.
İnceler misiniz lütfen. Burayı tıklayın lütfen. İsterseniz linki kopyalayın ve yeni bir sayfada açın. ( http://materyal.istmem.com )
Bu yarışmaya her branştan öğretmen katılabilir. Şimdiden her branştan öğretmene bol şanslar dilerim.
Erkin YILDIRIM
25 September 2019
20 September 2019
Who is he?
Three broken libs
A pierced lung And still, he fought For peace at home Peace in the world!
He is Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK!
I would like to leave a bunch of flowers from all over the world for him.
6 July 2019
Teaching vocabulary at higher levels
Teaching vocabulary beyond intermediate level has its own set of challenges. This webinar will explore topics including selecting what to focus on with students who already have a core vocabulary, teaching about lexical features and the importance of understanding usage at higher levels.
Dates and Times
16th July 2019
- UTC Time Zone 09:00 - 10:00
- UK (BST) 10:00 - 11:00
- UAE (GST) 13:00 - 14:00
- Japan (JST) 18:00 - 19:00
- Brazil (BRST) 06:00 - 07:00
- New York (EST) 05:00 - 06:00
16th July 2019
- UTC Time Zone 16:00 - 17:00
- UK (BST) 17:00 - 18:00
- UAE (GST) 20:00 - 21:00
- Japan (JST) 01:00 - 02:00 (+1 day)
- Brazil (BRT) 13:00 - 14:00
- New York (EDT) 12:00 - 13:00
17th July 2019
- UTC Time Zone 20:00 - 21:00
- UK (BST) 21:00 - 22:00
- UAE (GST) 00:00 - 01:00 (+1 day)
- Japan (JST) 05:00 - 06:00 (+1 day)
- Brazil (BRT) 17:00 - 18:00
- New York (EDT) 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker is Julie Moore.
If you're interested in the topic, click the link below.
https://elt.oup.com/events/global/teaching_vocabulary_at_higher_levels_challenges_and_choices?cc=tr&selLanguage=en&mode=hub
11 June 2019
Know My World
Dear teachers, we need our children to chat with their
peers from other countries, exchange information, get to know our common world
and solve the problems of the world hand in hand regardless of the course you
are teaching. I invite you to contact Know My World organisation, too. Let's not forget. We only
have one world.
Think of an education
center, which was founded by about 15 teachers and administrators. It is Know My World, click it here or
copy ( https://knowmyworld.org )
They match the
teachers and students in the world with teachers and students in another
country to discuss the global and common issues through digital education
platforms to spread cultural awareness through social-emotional learning. They
are coaching and mentoring in both countries.
I met this
organisation six years ago. I met Alicia Rescingo from Edmodo. By the way,
Edmodo is a great educational site, click it here.
(Many thanks to Mr Nic Borg, Mrs Crystal Hutter, and Mr. Jeff O'HaraCystal. )
We talked via Skype. However, in those years, the classes I was teaching, and
the technological facilities were weak and limited. In 2018, the school
administration asked to open clubs in foreign languages. Different clubs were
opened. I wanted to open a different club and my students to exchange both
educational and cultural information with students from other countries. Alica
and her organisation came to my mind. I made my application, and it was accepted.
I have pursued a program with the joint decision of two different countries for
6-8 weeks. I believe that my work with two countries has been beneficial both
for me and the teachers and students on the other side. In fact, the teachers
and their development are essential here. I focused on my club students and
worked on their personal and group activities and cultural development. The
selected teachers in this program are asked to evaluate themselves on five
topics of beginner and advanced level at the end of the program. These are
co-constructed planning, time management, cultural understanding, technology,
and extraction of learning.
Dear teachers, if you
want to cooperate with this international organisation, Know My World, I would like to share my suggestions as 13 items.
1. If you miss a program, you will be able to apply again on the internet
after 4-5 months as the programs will be performed 2-3 times a year.
2. You fill out a form and submit a video of maximum 3 minutes. (In the
video, you, your school and your students will talk)
3. Your application will be evaluated, and you are accepted by e-mail
most of the time. If you answer 'yes' to this e-mail, you will be deemed to
have accepted the program.
4. You will receive another e-mail a few days after your confirmation.
They will send you a question and answer form, trying to identify issues that
you might find difficult in achieving your goals, wishes, and desires to get to
know you better and to match you with the teachers from another country. This
form is filled out and sent via Google.
5. After the survey form, they sometimes want you to fill out a form to
learn about your school administration, your human relations, and community
behaviours. (I think this is very useful. Because they are trying to find the
right teacher for you by analysing your working behaviours with your colleagues
at lower and upper levels.)
6. Big day, your coordinator wants you to write the days you are
available, and he/she talks to you through a visual communication tool such as
SKYPE. Please ask whatever you want to know during this call. In this video
call, you will learn which country you will match with.
7. The coordinator sets out a meeting day with your matching teacher
according to the common days of you and your teacher. You meet your teacher,
with whom you will work for 7-8 weeks, under control of your coordinator. Your
coordinator takes various notes while chatting on the program. He/she asks
common questions to you. I would recommend you to speak clearly and openly
about all the things, including official holidays in your city or country. I
recommend that you use EDMODO (click it here)in
the training activities you will do with the matching school. At the end of the
chat, what you will do in 7-8 weeks is determined. On that day or the day
after, your coordinator will send you an e-mail.
During that week, you
will receive an e-mail requesting you to evaluate yourself and this exchange
program at the end of this program using 500-600 words.
8. The program progresses week by week. You may receive e-mails from your
coordinator in order to complete the application or to complete your
deficiencies.
9. On 4th or 5th week, you can have a live video conference (in the middle
of the program). (I strictly recommend this; the children get clearer
information, it is very simple because they have had the opportunity to chat
with people who they have been communicating with for weeks. In the coming
weeks, they become more willing to work.)
10. When you get close to the last weeks of the program, your coordinator
directs you to do a survey to fill in the students from you and the other
teacher.
11. Your children and the school and teacher they work with will have a
final video conference at the time of admission.
12. After the children, two teachers will be asked to fill in a
questionnaire to check and answer their questions.
13. After submitting your own questionnaire responses and 500-600 words,
they send you your participation certificate by e-mail. I'd like to
congratulate all of you already.
My school is in
Ankara, the capital of my country. My school, Nesibe Aydın (click here please) is one of the few schools in which I
have worked with very successful teachers. They really strive to provide their
students with a very good education. It is a school which prepares students to
both LGS, High School Transition Exam, and the Higher Education Institutions exam.
At the beginning of
the 2018-2019 educational term, I wanted to establish a club consisting of the
name of this organisation, because I was very impressed by Know My World study programs. A total of 32 students from
the 8th grade were admitted to the club. Although my club was not a sports
club, the students enrolled in my club from the portal. Typically, sports clubs
receive this many applications.
I put the United
Nations' sustainable development goals at the head of my club's activities. I
let each of my students examine these targets. We have learned about the
problems of the world, discussed the ways of solution. In fact, we have learned
about the sustainable goals of the United Nations on Know My World's website. (here is the site) In the meantime, I have divided
my students into two clubs to draw logos and pennants. 2 pennants came out with
the participation of my club students. We have decided to use both of our
banners with the majority of votes. Then we immediately decided to set up our club's website. (click it here please) I have delivered the web page of my
club to two students who are willing and experienced in this field. Every other
student added information and pictures to our web page.
In short, almost every
student took a task. I had contacts with Tema Vakfı, Tübitak, and Kuzey Doğa Association
(click it here) and I organised training meetings for our club.
Kuzey Doğa Association informed about Turkey's vegetation and wild animals. It
was beneficial for us to know our country and get information from live
sources. We did our first eight weeks of training with Algeria in
correspondence with Edmodo. I divided the students into seven groups among
themselves. The students of the science branch tried to search for standard solutions
for sustainable energy by making models of magnificent waste materials and
sharing their projects with the students of the country.
The second country was
Vermont from the US. (Click it here please)
The students chatted with each other about the movie characters in the joint
movie, after being introduced, illustrated and introduced with the video. Then
they shared local news from their city and made written comments. At the end of
the seventh week, the students had a pleasant 45-minute conversation.
I've become a
teacher who often preferred to look at the glass side. Every week, I worked at
my club for 2 hours with 32 students, and I tried to continue with 28 hours of
a school program. If this task is given to me again, I would prefer to stay
with only one class. I have understood that I should have 21 students instead
of 32, 12 hours per week instead of 2-hour intensive club activity. For
advanced courses, one should definitely choose one of the United Nations
sustainable goals, and I think some of our textbooks can be shared across
schools. Because children should be able to discuss the local, national or
international issues they have learned during that week/weeks with the children
of the other country. They can discuss the books they read in our own
curriculum. Therefore, many common issues will be shared. When there are
changes in joint planning, teachers should seek solutions among themselves and
enrich the joint program instead of the coordinator.
I am grateful to Mrs
Arıkan, the head of the department for her support to me while continuing my
club activities. Again, I would like to extend my appreciation to Know My
World's valued staff, Mrs Rescigno, Mrs Stefani and Mr Haskell. In a new year
of education, I would like to promise to work better and once again I would
like to match with another country.
Wish you luck
Erkin YILDIRIM
18 May 2019
19 Mayıs Atatürk'ü Anma, Gençlik ve Spor Bayramımız Kutlu Olsun
24 April 2019
En iyi öğretmen nasıl olmalı?
What should be the best feature for a teacher? I wrote a piece in the shape of my blog years ago. Now again, a student who is studying at Boğaziçi asked me this question. As a teacher who has completed 16 years, I would like to add a new item in the first three places, even in the first place. What do you think it should be? Let us think about it together.
If you are a student, the best teacher may be a teacher who makes you happy or a teacher who gives accessible examinations.
Are you one of those who believe that every year of your career is taking you to an absolute peak?
Do you think that most of the best feature as the best teacher is to criticize your colleague relentlessly? (Of course, lots of gossips) Otherwise, your requirement, do you think he will be a METU graduate, DELTA will be, he's going to be a PhD?
These substances go like this. So, What should be the best teacher for me? What should be the best feature of the teacher?
My dear readers, I think one of the first three ranks must be the creative feature of the teacher. (Innate ability or subsequently acquired) The teacher should produce something for the future of children. Carry them to the future. Make you think while you are entertaining when you make believe not spending time with a conversation! At the end of the day, as a teacher, I asked myself what I could bring to my children today, and it would be a shame if another day passed without doing in the class. If you can't get any new ideas, please get some ideas from the producers, take them, we get them, the new teachers will get ...
All we have Anatolia, come to produce. If we cannot provide, we do not interfere with producers, let's make them support. In the past, there were sources that did not exceed one finger, thanks to the Internet, countless resources are now at hand. Let's work and produce. Let's simulate if we can't. It is not a shame to imitate, to bring something new to our class, and to adapt it. What is wrong is that we do not renew ourselves. Let us not forget, Ataturk, entrusted this generation to us!
I'm telling you clearly when I can't produce it, and I leave this job. Whenever I am a terrible example for my children, I will get my jacket and leave the place that day. Whenever I can't help my fellow teachers, my heart rats, close the gap of my child when I can't remember that night, believe me when I put my head on the pillow, and my eyes will not close. The next day I don't feel good when I can't teach my kids how to dream. When I do not see my love in the eyes of my child (my student), then I say goodbye.
I'm a teacher. I participated in a national competition after the Inter-high School Tubitak Science Competition I entered in 1993. Only teachers could participate in this competition. It is related to creating new educational material, and it is a competition attended by the teachers of the Directorate of National Education of Istanbul Province. The first day was in April when the competition applications began in the country I think 61 teachers had attended. On the last day of the competition application, the total application was 4681. Even though I thought they would not call me to Istanbul in the semi-finals, I planned my competition with the same feelings I heard in 1993, I researched, mixed a few books, worked at night and participated in the contest representing my school in Central Anatolia Region. I had 4680 confidence, producing teachers! Let me lose. Does not matter. I am happy because the 4681 self-confident teachers, producing participated in a national competition. How happy my country!
I love my country, and I love my students very much, I love my family very much...
Click here it is the link of the competition. Click here and read the last 210 contestants! I'm there :)