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[eslteacherlooking]

Okay, what exactly and how exactly do you plan lessons for your elementary school classes? Do you have a resource you use? A website? A book?

Do you buy your own textbook and just use that as a source? How do you develop 22 lessons every week?? How do you keep the continuity and progression?

Do you use the same lesson and just increase the difficulty?

I would really appreciate any tips, advice, and info on how to do this for a class of thirty kids....22 times a week....

After having six kids in a hogwon with everything laid out in exact detail I am suddenly becoming nervous about this imminent public school experience.

[karri]

PS has set out text books for grade 3-6. You just hav eto come up with some material to make it more interesting for the kids. (games ect.)

You may have to teach k-2 but if you already taught at a hogwon you should have enough idea about what to teach, and the internet is your friend....

www.barryfunenglish.com
www.mes-english.com
www.bogglesworld.com
esl classroom 2.0 (can't remeber the exact site address)

plus the idea cookbook on this site.

Relax i switched form hogwon to PS and love it. 40 min vs 50 min classes are much easier.

[Dances With Wolves]

At my public school we have a government approved curriculum. It has a book for students and a teachers guide for how to do the classes. It goes along with a cd-rom, and is very easy. I actually prefer supplementing the the government curriculum with my own ideas, which the kids prefer. EFL 2.0 is a cool website to get some ideas from if you can't think of anything. BTW I teach 3rd-6th grade, so I am not sure what happens for 1st and 2nd graders. Hope this was helpful.

[Michael_75]

It's not 22 different lessons per week, each grade will have maybe 6 or 7 classes and so you will repeat one lesson 6 or 7 times. Last term I only taught three different lessons per week, one for grade 5 and two for grade 6.

There is a textbook and CD from the education authority that provides the backbone of your lessons. Your co-teacher will handle the curriculum (or should). You may want to supplement the lessons with your own ideas as the others suggested. The games in the book are rubbish for the most part and it doesn't take much effort to come up with something bettter.

[sobriquet]

[D.D.]

I just use videos on youtube and get hem to talk about them. I will pause the video a lot and ask them to talk about it.

I will ask What is he doing? They will say walking. I say walking where? They say walking on the wing.

I try to find material that keeps them interested. They like Bugs Bunny and stuff like that. Same lesson for each class while expecting more comments from the older kids.

Younger kids are expected to make minds map with words and older kids are expected to start forming sentences.

I have a basic rythem of words to sentences to paragraphs to stories.

Sop when kids are basic they are expected to generate words from what they saw in a video and it goes to sentences and paragraphs as they progress.

It takes until middle school for paragraphs to develop out of them.

[intl girl of mystery]

If these are regular school classes, you'll have a textbook with pretty detailed lesson plans (which no one ever follows to the letter of course, but it will give you something to work with). I know the English lessons are available in a few places, but Dave's server is running so slowly right now that I'll never be able to search for them (can we all pause a moment and reflect on what a terrible product the forum is, in that it consistently fails in the only tasks it needs to be capable of doing?). Anyway, here's what I have bookmarked on this computer, which appear to still work:

http://www.esnips.com/web/KoreanElementaryGrade3EnglishGuides

http://www.esnips.com/web/KoreanElementaryGrade4EnglishGuides

http://www.esnips.com/web/KoreanElementaryGrade5EnglishGuides

http://www.esnips.com/web/KoreanElementaryGrade6EnglishGuides


For after-school classes, if you have to teach more than two or three grades a week, best advice is don't reinvent the wheel. Ask your school to buy at least one textbook and teacher's manual for each level and photocopy them if you have to. I have to teach 18 unique (er, more or less) lessons a week, and the novelty of putting together my own material wore out pretty fast. It's also quite tedious to constantly cobble something together from five different websites.

[Michelle]

Hi There,

Here are teacher's guides in english and some lesson plans.

http://cge.ken.go.kr/contents/tbl_e_04_01/main_pds_list.asp

Look at the menu on the left hand side.

Sometimes have trouble finding this site for some reason so I would bookmark it. G'luck.

Cheers,



Michelle

[Kurtz]

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[Kurtz]

AAAh...sorry, I'll work out the quote system in due time......

"they wonder why teaching isn't considered seriously here when the "teachers" don't know how to plan a lesson"

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

Teaching in a public school is usually easier than teaching in a hagwon. If you're really worried, just do what you did in the hagwon, but apply it to the structures in the book you're using.

Really, all that this job involves is finding new ways to deliver the same structures over and over.

Wow, that's actually kind of depressing...