- Online
- 2 Saturdays
- 12 Hours
- 20 September 2025
- 21 September 2025
Registration Form
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Maximizing a child’s academic potential is possible not only through study programs, but also through the parenting attitudes demonstrated at home. This workshop teaches parenting approaches that increase motivation, support disciplined study habits, and reduce exam anxiety.
Participants will discover communication methods that keep their children engaged in learning, key strategies for creating a learning-friendly home environment, and the guiding role of parents in achieving academic goals. In this way, families will be able to become the strongest supporters in their children’s journey toward success.
To help parents develop process-oriented, motivation-enhancing, and emotionally supportive attitudes that will support their children’s academic success, and to enable them to gain the skills to create a learning-friendly home environment and healthy study habits.
- Theoretical Introduction (30 min)
- Own the Process: Praising Effort and Supporting Development
- Not for Grades, but for Curiosity: Strengthening Intrinsic Motivation
- Do Not Take Over Homework, Own the Process: Guided Parenting
- Motivational Support and the Use of Empowering Language
- Break (10 min)
- Case Studies (30 min)
- A case of motivation loss after grade-focused feedback
- A case of academic development after a process-oriented approach
- Increasing focus time through home environment arrangements
- Break (10 min)
- Problems and Ideal Solutions (30 min)
- “Motivational Language Transformation” activity
- “Identifying Learning Barriers and Solution Workshop” activity
- Break (10 min)
- Q&A (20 min)
- Module 1 – Parenting Styles and Process-Oriented Parenting
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Module 2 – Emotional Support and Individual Talent Development
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Module 3 – Academic Motivation and Academic Structure
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Case Studies
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Problems and Ideal Solutions
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Identifying Learning Barriers: Practical Applications
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Effective Practices
PhD Candidate, LecturerAylin Aydın
Aylin Aydın completed her undergraduate studies in English Language Teaching at Uludağ University and in Child Development at Istanbul University. She completed her master’s degree in psychology with a thesis examining the relationship between language and working memory. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at the Psychotraumatology and Psychohistory Research Unit of Istanbul-Cerrahpaşa University’s Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences, conducting research on memory, learning, and trauma. Her academic work includes articles published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference presentations. Aydın teaches as a lecturer at Istanbul Nişantaşı University and specializes in educational psychology, language acquisition, memory, and trauma. She also writes on parenting attitudes, child development, and learning processes.
Assistant ProfessorSenanur Çınar
She completed her master’s degree in English Language Education at Bahçeşehir University in 2018 with a thesis on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). She completed her PhD at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in 2024 with a dissertation on translanguaging. Her academic interests include innovative teaching and learning approaches such as teacher education, student motivation, language acquisition, critical thinking, artificial intelligence applications, effective communication, and information literacy. In 2023, she received the CELTA certificate from the University of Cambridge in Spain, further specializing in effective language teaching techniques. Through this expertise, she offers parents scientifically grounded and practical guidance to support their children’s academic and personal development. She began her academic career at Istanbul Gelişim University and later served for three years as the head of the Applied English and Translation Program, carrying out both administrative and academic responsibilities. She currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Bahçeşehir University and organizes various training programs for academics through the Professional Development Unit. She also continues her teaching activities by lecturing in the English Language Teaching departments of the Faculties of Education at Bahçeşehir University and MEF University.
Assistant ProfessorFiliz Arzu Yalın
PhD Candidate, Specialist Psychological Counselor
Tuğba Emen
She completed her undergraduate studies in Guidance and Psychological Counseling at Çukurova University. She completed her master’s degree in the Department of Social Sciences at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences with a thesis titled “An Examination of the Relationship Between Childhood Psychological Traumas and Manipulation, Dissociation, and Self-Sabotage in Married Couples.” Since 2022, she has been pursuing her doctoral studies at the same institute, conducting research on trauma, dissociation, coercive control, intergenerational transmission, sharenting, and grooming. She has received training from various institutions, particularly the Beck Institute and the Gottman Institute, in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, couples therapy, family counseling, and career counseling. Her academic work includes book chapters and presentations at international congresses.
