What is Teachers First Foundation?
A private, non-profit organisation dedicated to prioritising and improving teacher/educator well-being through targeted trainings and developing a comprehensive network for teachers and education leaders in Turkey and abroad.
What We Do
In the light of these basic concepts, we aim to create, consolidate and sustain a new and improved framework for teachers and educational administrators.
In order to prevent teachers/education administrators from trying to become educators without first getting to know themselves, the way they came into life, their temperament, then their environment, their age, and what their age brings and will bring, we think that action should be taken to place and develop the skill sets that are not emphasised enough in the individual sense. The way to do this is to observe the social, psychological and physical well-being of teachers and educational administrators in the first place and to show them that they are a part of life and that they give life to a part of life with what they teach, and more importantly, to make them feel this.
As Teachers First Foundation, our number one priority is to develop the general understanding of life first in educators and then in children who will grow up in the educational atmosphere they will give life to.
Ultimately, our mission is to prioritise and increase teacher/educator well-being through teacher trainings, and to create and strengthen a new and improved framework in which teachers and educational leaders can work together as ‘teacher-being’ in schools and in their personal lives.
In order to make this main framework self-sustainable and continuously applicable in the long term, we encourage teachers and local partners in the closest reach to travel around the country to team up with others and help expand the results of the trainings they have received in ÖÖV and provide networking opportunities.
Our Goals
1
Teacher well-being is on the agenda of education and educators.
2
Access of the teacher, educator to each other.
3
The exchange of ideas, opportunities and action plans.
4
Free circulation within the Teachers First Foundation of all kinds of useful resources that can develop teachers and educators and bring them to themselves and their environment.
Global Vision
We aim to be a global platform where teachers and educators in Turkey and around the world can express themselves socially-emotionally, professionally and innovatively and come together, find opportunities to find, develop and renew themselves in these aspects and filter them according to their own needs, and share ideas, action plans and ideas on how they can leave an ‘impact’ where they do not have ‘authority’ by developing the international collaborations we have established and linking them with our renewed goals.
