Dmitriy Cherkassov joined SDU in 2019 right after completing MA in TESL at the Pennsylvania State University. He has been a lecturer at "Two Foreign Languages" (TFL) Program within the Faculty of Education & Humanities since then. Prior to that, Dmitriy worked as an English teacher at the high school level for 4,5 years. For a period of one academic year (2020-2021), he served as a Program Coordinator for TFL. Currently, Dmitriy continues working as a lecturer at the Faculty; as well as that, he serves as a Professional Development Coordinator of TFL Program. The latter includes providing and/or arranging workshops/trainings for the faculty instructors and partly assisting the Centre of Professional Development and Innovation (CPDI) at SDU with their developmental work. Apart from academic perspective, Dmitriy is also a socially involved individual who eagerly participates in the extracurricular activities of SDU and is active in social media.

MA in TESL - The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
Exchange Program Student (one semester) - Pittsburg State University, KS, USA
BA in TFL - Semey State Pedagogical Institute

CELTA (Pass B)
IELTS (Overall 8.0)

TFL 226 - B2 - Major Foreign language [English B2] in Intercultural Communication Contexts - 2
TFL 312 - C1 - Teaching English to Young Learners
TFL 438 - C1 - Assessment in Foreign Language Teaching
TFL 439 - C1 - Practice of English Language Teaching: Peer Teaching

"The Mentoring Process: Enriching Professional Growth for English Language Teachers and Teacher Educators", 9th ICBCB: Global Trends and Values in Education, Kaskelen, Kazakhstan, September 24-25, 2020.

Teacher education (mentoring process of pre- and in-service teachers), teacher identity, teacher-student interactions

BOLASHAK scholarship for master's degree, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2017