Aida Chemerbayeva joined the Suleyman Demirel University (SDU) in Kazakhstan in 2024 as a senior manager (methodologist) of SDU Extension School and a part time lecturer at the Faculty of Education and Humanities. In 2023, after graduating the US university UIUC, she had been working as a methodologist in the Departement of Education in Almaty city and was assined as a coordinator of IB for 5 public schools. Aida is passionate about reading and learning languages. She speaks five languages for now and plans to add two more languages on her list in the future.

Ed.M Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership, 2023, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Higher Professional Education: Kazakh language and literature, English language, 2002, Kazakh National Pedagogical University, named after Abay, Almaty, Kazakhstan Secondary Vocational Education: Teacher of foreign language (secondary and general education), Almaty State Kazakh Pedagogical College №1, Almaty, Kazakhstan

• Certification for Leader of Organization, by the Center of Pedagogical Excellence, “NIS” Autonomous Educational Organization (Almaty, 2012) • Certification for Teacher of English as a Second Language by “National Center of professional development” (hereinafter – JSC NCPD “Orleu” (Almaty, 2013) • Awarded an appreciation letter by the Center of Pedagogical Excellence “NIS” Autonomous Educational Organization (Almaty, 2014) • Certification for Leader of Multilingual Organization from OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) (Kyrgyzstan, 2016) • Certification of innovative and competitive educational programs from “CPE” (Almaty, 2018) • Diploma from the Department of Education (Almaty, 2018)

TESOL International Association 2023 - to present

BOLASHAK scholarship, Master's Degree at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA, 2018