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working individually on her academic reading and writing skills. She is married and has a son.
Her hobbies are reading and music. Her primary objective for participating in TEA is to explore
new methodologies for engaging students in a more participatory and active classroom setting.
Gulchehra Suyundukova, English Teacher
No. 2 Academic Lyceum, under Jizzek State Pedagogical Institute
Jizzak, Uzbekistan (Population: 124,000)
U.S. Host University: Purdue University
Gulchehra Suyundukova has been teaching English language at No. 2 Academic Lyceum under
JSPI for a year. Prior to this, she worked at ―Umid‖ boarding school for 11 years. Suyundukova
is an active member of the methodical union of English teachers at the lyceum. She also provides
methodological training for her fellow peers. Suyundukova received a philologist’s degree in
foreign languages from Samarkand State University in 1989 and a certificate in translating from
Jizzak Regional Centre for foreign languages in 1998. She has two children, and she enjoys
reading. Through the TEA program, she hopes to explore new methodologies for teaching
students in a more active classroom setting.
Natalya Yusupova, English Teacher
Secondary School #25
Chirchik, Uzbekistan (Population: 142,000)
U.S. Host University: Purdue University
Natalya Yusupova has been teaching English at a public secondary school for the past 16 years.
Her students range from 7 to 16 years of age, and there is an average of 35 students in her class.
Yusupova is an active member of the national UzTEA (Uzbekistan Teacher of English
Association). She is also a leader of the Chirchik UzTEA branch. Yusupova has participated in
many teacher training seminars and also provides trainings for her peers in teaching
methodology. She has also taken part in national and international conferences of teachers of
English. Yusupova graduated from the Tashkent State University (faculty of journalism) in 1983
and received a certificate in teaching English in 2002. She is married and has three adult children
and one grandson. Her hobbies include music (playing the accordion) and knitting. The main
goals she hopes to achieve through the TEA program are to explore new ways of learning
English, new methodologies for engaging students in a more participatory and active classroom
setting, and to elaborate on and collect new teaching resources.