About Sibel Buluktimir

Sibel Buluktimir lived in England for 23 years during which time she trained and worked in Montessori kindergartens and a primary school. She has since returned to Izmir  in Turkey where she worked for 4 years at a private school, Gelisim College, with 5 to 11 year olds and where she was the coordinator for Kindergarten and Grade One.

Sibel achieved great success teaching young students with the synthetic phonics teaching principles through multi-sensory activities including playing games, songs, chants and reading and writing by decoding and encoding. People commented that the students’ pronunciation was particularly clear and fluent. The interest generated in Gelisim College led to Debbie being invited to provide full training in the Phonics International programme in August 2008.

Sibel is now working in an MEF International School in Turkey teaching Grade One and Grade Two. She has 6 classes of 19 children who are very enthusiastic to learn in English as a second language. 
 

Sibel’s services include:

• advising parents, teachers and student teachers about the synthetic phonics teaching principles, multi-sensory teaching methods and suitable resources   
• providing workshops and training on request