Andrew Bosson

Andrew Bosson is an English Language Teacher with over 30 years of experience across teaching, teacher development, and educational management. He currently teaches at Sabancı University School of Languages, where he contributes to the department's professional development activities as part of the Quality Assurance team and serves as co-editor for a book in the university's Teacher Development series. Attributing his long-standing passion for classroom teaching to continuous professional growth, he has worked extensively with colleagues across Turkey and internationally since 2010 to facilitate developmental initiatives and exchange ideas on various ELT topics.

He holds an MA in TESOL and Educational Technologies, with core interests centered on promoting language acquisition through Project-Based Learning (PBL), advancing Lifelong Learning, and applying Positive Psychology concepts to education. Beyond the classroom, his blog Begins with a Problem—which explores PBL and principled technology integration in ELT—was featured as a reference in Oxford University Press’ Expert Focus on Project Based Learning. In addition to several published articles on teaching and learning, he recently co-authored a book chapter with İsmail Arıcı for Springer’s Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era, focusing on PBL as a model for normalized digital technology use to create practical, meaningful, and learner-centered online learning environments.

Tales Big and Small: Encouraging Storytelling for All Learners in Our Classrooms

Telling and listening to stories is one of the most fundamental reasons for human communication, whether we are sharing information about our daily lives or creating fantastic fictional worlds. In this workshop, we explore how encouraging storytelling in the English language classroom can provide students with genuine, meaningful, and motivating reasons to talk and listen to each other. We explore strategies, techniques, and attitudes that can make storytelling a key, everyday part of an English language teacher’s toolkit, creating opportunities for learners to become active tellers and listeners of stories, whether big or small. This session aims to support your creativity and experimentation as an educator, providing ideas and some inspiration that may expand and develop your professional practice. It provides practical ideas that you can apply immediately and also some that you may wish to consider and develop over time.