A workshop was held between 27 November and 4 December 2022 with 100 Science and Art Centre   teachers in the project named Society 5.0 for Gifted Education, which is carried out to improve the quality of special education services for gifted students. The project, which is financially supported by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA), is carried out by Bornova Şehit Fatih Satır Science and Art Center, while Turgutlu Science and Art Center Dokuz Eylül University and Celal Bayar University are project partners.

We hope that the design thinking system will be internalized and learned by our children and young people and used in their studies, thus opening new horizons for us. It is hoped that this book will contribute to the new ideas, designs, projects or works of art that will be formed by using this new method in the future.

The question, ‘Who should teach courses in English for Specific Purposes (ESP)?’ has been a matter of controversy for decades in the field of English language teaching (ELT). However, in the course of time, there has appeared to be a consensus on allocating the responsibility of teaching ESP courses to English teachers due to their overwhelming success in teaching practice in comparison to content experts. In fact, the success of ESP teachers appears to rely on the five key roles identified by Dudley Evans and St. John (1998) who called them ‘ESP practitioners’, which are the roles of a teacher, a researcher, a course designer, a material provider, a collaborator and an evaluator. In this book, you will find a compact pack of how to become ‘an ESP practitioner’ by following the footsteps of the leading researchers in the ESP literature. Besides, it is the responsibility of ESP practitioners at tertiary level education to catch up with the needs and mindset of the generation Z individuals via technology-integrated pedagogical strategies as is the case with one of the recent blended learning approaches, the flipped learning approach. Thus, in this book you will also find the elements of creating a flipped learning environment, relying on the related literature on how to become a flipped learning practitioner. On this basis, driven by Dr İlter’s doctoral dissertation, ‘Developing ESP Courses in the Flipped Learning Environment’ is relied on an evidence-based literature review concerning the flipped learning perspective in ESP practices in EFL settings. It is hoped that this review will satisfy an existing need in the ESP field by suggesting the flipped learning strategy as an alternative to benefit from in the design and implementation processes of developing an ESP course at a tertiary level EFL setting.

Örgütlerde planlı değişim gerçekleştirilmesi, örgüt geliştirme çabalarının yenilikçi yüzünü temsil eder. Amaç hem örgütün verimliliğine hem de çalışanların örgütteki mutluluğuna katkıda bulunmaktır. Bu çalışma ile planlı değişimin okullarda nasıl uygulanabileceğine yönelik bir çerçeve sunulması amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmada planlı değişimin genel bir modeli kullanılarak, bir özel okulun performans değerlendirme sisteminin değiştirilişi; bu değişime karar verilmesinden, sonuçlarının değerlendirilmesine kadar tüm süreci içerecek şekilde ayrıntılı bir şekilde irdelenmiştir. Çalışmanın eylem araştırması kullanılarak desenlenmiş oluşu, okulda gerçekleştirilen değişimin hikayesini somutlaştırmaya olanak tanımış ve benzeri uygulamaları gerçekleştirmek isteyenler için gerçekçi bir tablo oluşturmuştur.