{"id":225,"date":"2025-12-03T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:11:16","slug":"past-present","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=225","title":{"rendered":"Past &#038; Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gse-lead\">\n    Since its establishment, the Graduate School of Education (GSE) has played a pivotal role in shaping teacher education and graduate studies in T\u00fcrkiye. Below is a timeline of key milestones that highlight the School\u2019s ongoing growth, innovation, and contributions to the field.\n  <\/p>\n<div class=\"gse-contact\">\n<h2>Historical Milestones<\/h2>\n<p>\n      <strong>1988<\/strong><br \/>\n      Bilkent University launched its first in-service teacher education program at the graduate level for practising teachers in higher education. The program, <em>MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)<\/em>, was developed in collaboration with the Fulbright Commission in Ankara.<br \/>\n      <br \/>[<strong>Still Active<\/strong>]\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>2000<\/strong><br \/>\n      The Graduate School of Education (GSE) was founded.<br \/>\n      It launched a pre-service teacher education program, <em>MA in Teacher Education (TE)<\/em>, initially in four areas: Biology, English, History, and Turkish Language &#038; Literature. Mathematics was added the following year.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>2003<\/strong><br \/>\n      GSE introduced a five-year combined BA &#038; MA program,<br \/>\n      <em>English Teacher Education (ETE)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>      In the same year, in collaboration with the School of English Language,<br \/>\n      GSE launched the MA program in <em>Management in Education (EM)<\/em><br \/>\n      designed for practising English language teachers.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>2004<\/strong><br \/>\n      GSE launched another five-year combined BA &#038; MA program, <em>Computer and Instructional Technology Teacher Education (CTE)<\/em>.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>2007<\/strong><br \/>\n      GSE initiated the<br \/>\n      <em>MA in Curriculum &#038; Instruction (CI)<\/em>, a program for practising teachers.<br \/>\n      <br \/>[<strong>Still Active<\/strong>]\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>2010<\/strong><br \/>\n      Due to national teacher education policy changes, the previous MA in Teacher Education (TE) was replaced by the new program <em>MA in Curriculum &#038; Instruction with Teaching Certificate (CITE)<\/em>.<br \/>\n      This program has since been offered in five areas:<br \/>\n      Biology, English, Mathematics, Physics, and Turkish Language &#038; Literature.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>2011<\/strong><br \/>\n      GSE established its first doctoral program:<br \/>\n      <em>PhD in Curriculum &#038; Instruction<\/em>.<br \/>\n      <br \/>[<strong>Still Active<\/strong>]\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>2021<\/strong><br \/>\n      GSE launched a new full-time MA program for qualified teachers, <em>MA in Curriculum &#038; Instruction with Teaching Certificate (CI-IB)<\/em>.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gse.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}