1. Senior colleague report
Name:
Institute attended and year:
Date of submission:
To be completed by a senior colleague at your school and submitted with Standard Five
Name of colleague:
Position held at school:
NICHOLAS BAWCUTT
ISTANBUL 2011
28 OCTOBER 2012
MATTHEW BENTON
FOREIGN LANGUAGES COORDINATOR

2. 2
Senior colleague report
Please comment on the progress made by the teacher during the year of the ITC programme
(approximately 400 words)
During his participation in the ITC programme, Nicholas Bawcutt has made substantial progress toward
developing the "global mindset" that your organization espouses, and his activities have had a very positive
affect on our own departmental and school culture. As we are currently an IB candidate school, international
mindedness is a central concern of our administration and we are very grateful for teachers like Nick, who has
taken it upon himself to obtain the professional development needed to make valuable contributions as we
work to establish a more multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary curriculum at our school. In the last year, NIck's ITC
activities have seen him lead a group of Turkish students in his Spanish club to a Spanish Jewish cultural center,
incorporate activities in his classes that have been focused on global issues quite relevant to our students, and
mentor another teacher at our school who is beginning the ITC herself. Each of these actions has had a positive
impact on the academic and professional culture of our school, as they have set an example both for the
students and for other teachers and administrators. A number of students have expressed their satisfaction and
desire to have more activities dealing with multi-cultural and global issues. His work with two students in
transition has also gone well, and he has seems to have gained valuable perspective in his contact with a Turkish
student studying in America and also an American in Istanbul. This perspective is useful in our school as we
anticipate expanding our own exchange program in the near future. Perhaps the most impressive evidence of
progress, however, was Nick's presentation of his research on gender-based learning differences in the language
classroom during an internal professional development workshop held at our school last month. I was able to
attend this session and witness first-hand the progress he has made professionally since beginning the ITC.
Nick's presentation was full of relevant and useful information and his delivery was quite effective. In the weeks
following the workshop, I have had several teachers approach me and express their interest in learning more
about his topic and even in giving their own workshops in the future. Some teachers have been able to
successfully incorporate some of the information from his presentation into their own classrooms. As you can
see, Nick's work on the ITC has had quite a positive impact on our school, and I would say that his progress has
been substantial. The fact that he will soon be ITC certified is a point of pride for our school and we are hoping
that other teachers show the same initiative in their professional development activities as Nick has.