Department Units

There are 3 different units to improve the teaching processes of our academic staff working under BARU's School of Foreign Languages and to ensure the professional development of the staff as follows:

Testing and Evaluation Unit
Curriculum Development Unit
Professional Development Unit

Below are the academic staff on duty in the units and their responsibilities.

Testing and Evaluation Unit (TEU)

Name & Surname	Duty
Inst. Süheyda SARIKAYA	Unit Coordinator
Inst. Zafer TAKIR	Member
Inst. Şirin ORAL	Member
Inst. İbrahim KAYACAN	Member
Inst. Serap DURMUŞ	Member

Responsibilities of TEU:

The Testing and Evaluation Unit is responsible for planning, preparing, implementing and monitoring all exams of the English Preparatory School within an academic year as placement tests, proficiency exams, midterms and quizzes. Working in coordination with the Curriculum Development Unit and the faculty members of our School, it prepares objective, reliable and highly valid exams.

Curriculum Development Unit (CDU)

Adı Soyadı	Görevi
Inst. Hüma Tuğçe YÜCELLİ	Unit Coordinator
Inst. Nurcan TOPAL KAYA	Member
Inst. Burçin KEF	Member
Inst. Niyazi Alkan AY	Member
Inst. Sevcan AKYILDIZ	Member

Responsibilities of CDU:

Bartın University aims at continuous development and innovation. Accordingly, the School of Foreign Languages works on achieving continuous development of the content and quality of English education conveyed under the programs affilied to our school. The Curriculum Development Unit is under the School of Foreign Languages and has major roles. The main responsibilities of this unit are as follows:

Preparing and developing the curriculum of the English Language Preparation Programs
Examining the books to be used in the courses and planning the materials to enhance the curriculum considering our philosophy of education.
Determining the needs of students and developing materials to meet them in coordination with the Testing and Evaluation Unit, and academic and administrative staff.

Professional Development Unit (PDU)

Adı Soyadı	Görevi
Öğr. Gör. Şirin ORAL	Unit Coordinator
Öğr. Gör. Zafer TAKIR	Member
Öğr. Gör. Dr. Mehmet Ali BAŞARAN	Member
Öğr. Gör. Dr. Ayşe ADIYAMAN	Member

Responsibilities of PDU:

Professional Development Unit (PDU) started to serve at the School of Foreign Languages as of the 2018-2019 Academic year. This unit aims to improve the existing knowledge, skills and experience of our academic staff within the scope of lifelong learning.

What PDU does:
It organizes pre-service training and orientation of newly appointed academic staff. For this purpose, it organizes meetings to inform our new instructors by all units serving in our school and determines the program for classroom observations. The Professional Development Unit also carries out the planning, which allows our newly appointed instructors to attend the courses of volunteer experienced instructors and observe them, so that they can get an insight into the teaching of the course and the use of course materials, etc., before doing their first lesson.

It determines the subjects that instructors need to develop professionally and organizes the necessary in-service training activities. It supports the professional development of all teaching staff members by sharing with them about current approaches to Foreign Language Education.

The administration, all units, and all our academic staff participate in and support the unit activities, and the organization of unit activities is carried out by the unit employees: