Korean Job Discussion Forums

[lukas]

My public school wants me to write a curriculum for the four after school classes I teach -_-. It would be great if there was a good text book to use, but the few we have don't seem suitable.

I am not given much direction as to the level of the students or what I should be teaching. From what I see the class is pretty mixed in ability. I have a a few students who are amazing, a few who couldn't care less, and a lot of average students. I'm thinking of just taking the chapters from the standard public school textbook and adapting it to the afterschool class, most likely making it harder since it tends to be a bit easy.

Did anyone else here have to write a curriculum for your classes? I'm interested to hear what you guys have done. Cheers

[Reise-ohne-Ende]

I don't have to write curriculum, but I can tell you what I've been doing (and plan to do) with my afterschool classes:

Mine meet twice a week. On Tuesdays, it's a grab bag of ideas - videos (about American culture, or Korean culture but in English), games (especially improv games), and the website www.real-english.com which is amazing.

Thursdays, I'm starting a book club. There's a series called Penguin Readers that splits books according to level. On their website there are diagnostic tests you can give your students to find their level. Then I plan on lumping them together by levels and setting up a book club type situation...they read the chapters out loud (to practice pronunciation) and then discuss the books together. I want to foster real communication in English and I think this will be a good way to do it. Wish me luck!

[lukas]

[winterfall]

Try administering Paul's Nation Bilingual Vocabulary Size Test. It'll give you a good idea how many of the 1st 1000 & 2nd 1000 words they know. If they're low, focus on vocab and usage. If they're higher you can do grammar