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nok
Joined: 04 Jul 2009
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:39 pm Post subject: Middle & High School: Want a bunch of lessons? |
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Some friends and I are starting a lesson-sharing group of high-school and middle-school teachers in Korea.
Dave's and other sites like it are great for sharing ideas, but we often have to do a lot of sifting and alteration to get something that fits our needs (large class sizes, sometimes mixed skill levels, co-teacher friendly, often monogender classes, low-level lessons aimed at teens instead of tots, etc). So some friends and I are starting our own collection of lesson plans and materials specifically for public middle school and high school teachers. Ideally, we'd like to get to a full year of great conversation lessons that require only minor tweaking to be taught in each of our schools.
If you'd like to be included, just send me an email at [email protected], including LP's and all necessary materials for the two best lessons you've ever taught. After we review it and get it all posted, we'll send a link out to everyone who has submitted.
If you're not a public middle/hs teacher but you've got something that we can use to grab, hold and utilize the attention of 30-40 sleep-deprived, test-obsessed, pressure-cooked teens, you're more than welcome to submit, too. Thanks! |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Why dont you and your friends post your own lessons instead of sounding like a LP leech |
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koreatimes
Joined: 07 Jun 2011
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DaHu
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
| Why dont you and your friends post your own lessons instead of sounding like a LP leech |
Because they have 0 lesson plans and want other people to send them lesson plans for the year. |
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nok
Joined: 04 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
| Why dont you and your friends post your own lessons instead of sounding like a LP leech |
We are posting our own. I'm asking for two each from new members, but I've put in 6 of my own so far.
Koreatimes mentioned that its more useful to share ideas than LP's, because you have to tailor each lesson for the class/teacher. With the way we're sharing lessons now, that's true. I look on ESL websites for ideas, not for lessons.
But when I get a lesson from a friend in a similar teaching situation to mine, I can teach it with just minimal tweaks for my own style.
I'd like to replicate this by first: having a sharing community of people in similar teaching situations, second: filing the LPs with tags so that you can search for something like 'high school/boys/intermediate,' and third: quality checking everything before posting it.
We could all spent a lot less time sifting and remaking content. |
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Skippy
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Good Idea - will likely fizzle in the end. Same reason most black lists are useless or old - people are lazy. Many denizens of the Internet like to get things easily and if preferably free. Getting access to your stuff means having to make two lessons and then email them. That is soooo hard. They just want a nice link to click on and then leech from.
Good Luck! |
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