From Istanbul, TURKEY

We are psychological counselors working at Guidance and Research Center which is a government institution under the Ministry of National Education.

We identify the abilities and the needs of the people (aged ranged from 0 to 99) and make individualized educational programmes for students who are examined in our institution to support their educational, cultural and social needs. Also we’re responsible for the school counselors’ development of practical skills in our district. So our target population is people with special needs, their parents and also teachers. For this population we organize different seminars, group works and etc. with specialists from all around the world. More specifically our job areas ;

• We make different ability and intelligence tests to identify people with special needs,
• We make structured group guidance sessions for parents of children with special needs, and also give informations about the rights of those individuals and parents,
• We make seminars to school psychological counselors, headmaster of schools related with gifted and talented children, children with attention and hyperactivity disorders, mental retardation and etc.
• We monitor the children who have education under the inclusion model in schools and guide teachers of those students,
• We make school visits for classes giving special education to children with special needs and also make consultation with those students’ teachers,
• We prepare reports for children with special needs in order to make them to take advantage of resource rooms,
• We apply projects like National Agency, National Development Agency, Ministry of Youth and Sports, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and etc.
• We make researches related with increasing the quality of education in our district like action research related with career development of youth and etc.
• We support students and their parents by making vocational and educational guidance,
• We prepare leaflets related with introducing our institution, vocational issues, rights of the people with special needs and etc.

We have already conducted National Agency Projects with different countries. For instance, for the period of 2014-2015 Finland and Spain education systems and interventions to gifted and talented children are investigated. It is aimed to visit Germany and Portuguese for the same purposes to this year.

Last but not least, İstanbul is the cradle of civilizations. It was European Capital of Culture in 2010. There are several people from different cultures, languages, religions.Depending on those varieties, there are many historical and natural treasures such as Ayasofya, Bosphorus and etc.

Related with our job areas mentioned above, we want to join;

• Under the “Erasmus+ Leonardo da Vinci” and “Erasmus+ Grundtvig” KA1 Learning Mobility of Individuals (job shadowing, teacher training and etc.)

We’re very much willing to contact with you.

Best regards.

Esra GÖRKEM

Psychological Counselor