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What Tuğba Brings to the Team
  • Deep understanding of bilingual education and learner challenges

  • Experience in university-level instruction and curriculum localization

  • Ability to bridge cultural contexts in language teaching

Ask Tuğba About
  • Hiking to Machi Pichu

Tuğba Polatcan

English & Turkish Teacher

Bilingual language lecturer with a focus on learner-centered instruction and curriculum integration

Türkiye

Tuğba Polatcan is a highly accomplished language educator, curriculum developer, and writer with native proficiency in both Turkish and English. Her expertise was recognized with a prestigious Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Scholarship, which brought her to the United States to teach Turkish at Five Colleges, Inc. in Massachusetts. With over a decade of experience as an English Language Instructor at prominent Turkish institutions, including Yaşar University and Erciyes University, Tuğba has a proven track record of engaging with diverse student populations, conducting needs assessments, and delivering personalized, impactful instruction.

Her practical teaching experience is supported by a strong academic foundation, including a Master of Arts in English from Clark University, which she attended on a significant $40,000 scholarship. Beyond the classroom, Tuğba is a successful published author. As a freelance Content Writer, she wrote two high school English course books that sold over 20,000 copies in their initial run across Turkey. Her versatile skill set, which includes critical writing, content development, and cross-cultural communication, has also been successfully applied in the tech sector in a customer experience role.

Words to Live By

“Creativity takes courage.”

- Henri Mattise

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