526 - Neroşi Khorsani (Lazca Sürüm)

Selen Balcı is an English and Laz language teacher and a learning and development specialist. She’s been teaching English for 5 years and Laz for 7 years. She is also one of the board members in the Laz Institute, which runs projects for the survival of Laz language and culture. She has translated a short version of Pollyanna into Laz and contributed to Laz course books as a writer. She organized teacher trainings and prepared trainers for teaching the online language courses. She supported them with the necessary educational technological skills and with the language teaching and adult teaching techniques. She’s a volunteer in the Network of Laz and Circassian Civil Societies Project (Funded by the EU) and responsible for teacher networks, planning, determination of curriculum, the conduct of the trainers trainings, planning material development trainings, designing the website for digital learning materials, digitalization of existing educational materials, writing a grammar book, and the preparation of a language dictionary.