Dr.Hayal Köksal was born in Balıkesir, Turkey in 1956. She graduated from Izmir Teachers' Training College in 1976 and Educational Faculty of Marmara University in 1985. She had her MA in English Language Teaching at Gaziantep University in 1992 and her Ph.D. in “Educational Sciences” in 1997. Dr.Köksal has been dealing with Total Quality in Education since 1992, and in 2000, she co-founded the Turkish Center for Schools of Quality with John Jay Bonstingl, the world-wide known Quality expert..
She has been lecturing at various outstanding Turkish Universities as a part-time INSTRUCTOR on the way of publizing quality-oriented education and working as an EDUCATIONAL QUALITY CONSULTANT, RESEARCHER and BOOK WRITER at the moment. She has already had eleven books. |
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She localized and coordinated the “Innovative Teachers” program of Microsoft Turkey and also she is trying to publicize the Students' Quality Circles philosophy, namely İmece Circles in Turkish, at Turkish schools. She has guided nearly 1000 İmece circles up to now.
Dr.Köksal is a member of “ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)”, “English Language Education Association”, “The New Generation Village Institutions Society” (One of the founders and Vice President of Istanbul branch), “The association for Continuous Improvement” (The founder & the president). Dr.Köksal owns the Honorary Medal of the Ministry of Tourism due to her leadership of Archeological projects, golden and silver medals of “NYDT” in South Africa. She is the owner of “Business-Education Partnership Award” of the Center for Schools of Quality together with Microsoft Turkey. Dr.Köksal is the Turkey representative of the Center for Schools of Quality of USA, the Turkish National Youth Development Trustee (NYDT) of South Africa, the Turkey’s Director General of the “World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education (WCTQEE) of India”, and a member of the advisory board of “Center for Quality People and Organizations (CQPO) of USA”. She is also in collaboration with “The International Academy for Quality Circles (IAQC)” established by Donald Dewar, Dallas Blankenship and Dr. John Man. She won an award from the World Bank 2005 Turkey Innovative Marketplace competition through her “İmece Circles Project” in May 2005. On 4th December 2005, she was awarded by the “World Quality Leader” award by the WCTQEE. The same World Council awarded her with “Nelum de Silva Human Excellence Award” due to her efforts for the 11. ICSQCC and “Helen Keller Human Excellence Award” for the challenged students projects she has been leading. Her ICT Project which has been supported by Microsoft Turkey has gained great success among the national and international teams to train “innovative” students. It is going to start its 7th year.
Dr.Köksal is giving some elective and compulsory courses at the Educational faculty of Boğaziçi University (like; “School Experience”, “Introduction to Teaching Profession”, “Innovative Teaching” and Quality in ELT”); at Yıldız Technical University (Personal Quality and Leadership),at the MA Program of Bahçeşehir University (Human Resources Management) and “Quality in teaching” at Yeditepe University. She is married with one daughter, who is an international actuary. |
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