Halil Direm

Delivering English language instruction to university preparatory
students. Identified a recurring problem in how attendance was
tracked across the department and built AttendEase — a web-based
tool now actively used by teaching staff to record and monitor
daily attendance.

This project was the starting point that turned a long-standing
interest in software into something real.

Delivered English language instruction to university preparatory
students across multiple proficiency levels.

Taught English to school-age students across varying proficiency
levels.

Taught English across multiple levels. Built the communication
and people skills that I now use every day in a very different
context.

Completed a teaching internship as part of my undergraduate
education, gaining hands-on classroom experience across different
student groups and proficiency levels.

Taught English across A1, A2, and B1 levels to students aged
10–18. Also provided one-on-one tutoring for a student preparing
for a master's degree in economics.

Intensive full-stack web development program covering HTML, CSS,
JavaScript (ES6+), React, and Node.js. Completed group projects
for each module, including serving as Scrum Master for the
JavaScript module project — Cinemania, a film discovery app built
with vanilla JavaScript and the TMDB API.

Graduated with a degree in English Language Teaching.
The academic foundation behind 5 years of professional
teaching experience.