Silvia Mustaklem

Silvia Nassar Mustaklem

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College: College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Discipline: Education
Department: Graduate School of Education

I am in my 4th year as a PhD student at the Graduate School of Education. I am also a Postgraduate Teaching Associate at the School of Education at University of Exeter. My research interest is in the professional development and teacher training programmes for EFL teachers in Palestine. 

I have obtained my master’s degree in education, specializing in teaching English as foreign language (TEFL) from Birzeit University in 2019. My thesis was researching the different professional development programmes available for EFL teachers in Palestine. 

Over the past twelve years, I have attained a diverse experience in the education field. I have worked as an EFL teacher in different private and non-profit educational organizations. I have also been involved in the teacher education field in Palestine through providing consultancy work. My recent job was English as a Foreign Language Specialist for Occupied Palestine Territories (OPT)- providing consultancy educational services and leading professional development workshops.  

I have also been a founding member to a Palestinian English Language Teachers Association (PELTA) since 2016. In PELTA I have been involved with planning, coordinating, and running events for teacher training and development. Through PELTA, I have worked with the British Council on the PalTag teacher training programme and presented in a “PALTAG 2018” symposium. Furthermore, I was a speaker in an e-symposium “The Future of Education in Palestine” through the British Council in June 2020. Additionally, 

I have served as a peer reviewer for The Open Review Journal, as well as organised, presented, and spoke at conferences nationally and internationally. I have been a member of IATEFL since July, 2019. I presented a paper in the 54th and 55th and 56th IATEFL conferences in 2021, 2022, and 2023. 

Some of my publications about teacher education are in Springer, Malta Review of Educational Research Journal, and others.